"their chances to go to prison are way too slim"
"Congratulations to your staff. It is--it would make any prosecutor proud, this report."
"I understand that it may not contain all the information needed, but it would seem to me that if you came across another proposal from the same entity, that we ought to be able to figure out how to pi..."
"Kind of dumb."
"Well, it is interesting to me--I mean, and this culture change would never have happened in the private sector."
"It is amazing to me that there is a sentence in a GAO report that reads as follows: 'The Department of Defense now prohibits'--underline 'now prohibits'--'payment of award fees for unsatisfactory perf..."
"And one of Mr. Assad's many challenges is that, as your report found out, DOD, in terms of contracting makes an octopus look like it does not have very many legs."
"These were cost-plus contracts."
"The best example I can think of that should outrage the American public is the company that wired the showers that killed our soldiers."
"I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to introduce an outstanding nominee for the Board of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting."
"I am very proud to have nominated her to the board, and I certainly urge the Committee and the Senate to confirm her nomination."