"Whatever we buy for the military, it must do no harm to them."
"Why don't we just make a date, say September 1st?"
"I really believe that we can do better. I just believe our Country is greater than that, that we can do better."
"You know, one of the things that is a little bit disturbing about these charts is that when we look at completed applications, Class of 2009 for African Americans there were 55, Class of 2010 there we..."
"I want to get some of those kids, young people, into the Coast Guard Academy, and I want to get them in so that they will be a part of the pipeline."
"I want dates for those things; I don't want to just wait until the end."
"We want to move the process along. We don't know how much time we have in these positions."
"I want that little boy, that white boy in Roanoke, Virginia, I want him to have a chance to be in the Coast Guard, and I want that African American in San Francisco to have a chance if they are qualif..."
"I want to thank you for doing that. But now we have got to have results."
"if this was my office and I had the goals to have a diverse workforce, she wouldn't be there."
"In other words, why we are going down. We are going backwards. In other words, the numbers are coming down."