Political Quotes

“And $7 million is real money. It is the same thing we have in the Department of Education. Secretary Riley is saying, we cannot find 1 percent. If we go to his department, as three of us did last week, and we talked to his chief deputies, they are saying, we are sorry, we cannot audit the books. What is worse, finding out you lost $7 million, or finding out you did not know where the money went? My guess is that as we go through the Department of Education, again, as we talk about some of the other discussions that we had at the Department of Education, I think we will find that the money is there to be found if we put in place the stringent financial controls. What always amazes me, and I think my colleague also had this kind of background, when we talk about stringent financial controls, I am sorry, but every day every small business, every publicly-held company, every Fortune 500 company, they have auditable books each and every year. This is not brain surgery. There are people who do this every day, and they do it for a living. We are just asking an agency that manages roughly $120 billion a year to please be careful with the taxpayers' dollars, and at the end of the year, please be able to tell us where they spent it.”