Is real policy not made in the White House these days?
consensus is the enemy. You cannot adapt if you have a consensus-based process
if you have a large, cumbersome, slow structure, you will have cumbersome, slow, consensus-driven, and ultimately unsatisfactory policy or s...
I love the idea of a red team in the Pentagon or perhaps in the National Security Council whose job it is to contest the conventional wisdom...
We are also fighting an idea. And I think if there is any gap in the--well, there are several gaps, but one of the serious gaps is the clash...
the tendency of any bureaucracy is, A, to say no and, B, to grow.
I was a staff member here in the Senate and was once called upon to set up a hearing.
If the oversight from the White House is more about policy and politics than it is about running the enterprise--I mean, there's a reason it...
Very quickly, I just wanted to mention that Senator Enzi and a number of us have a bill on biennial budgeting.
The person who's in charge at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, it seems to me, has an enormous role to play, if they choose to play it.
I would respectfully suggest, as I did for the CMO position and the sub-CMO positions, that you need statutory qualification requirements.