"I think that you want the contracting officers in the Federal Government to be tough on contractors."
"I think it is very important to point out that on the initiative of the Department of State, in March of this year, you did a check and inspected the guards."
"is it maybe time to say that we should not be guarding embassies in theater with private security contracts?"
"if this is about the locals being not sufficient to guard our embassy in theater because of the threat, it seems to me that we are not going up the food chain, we are going down the food chain."
"Well, when you checked the last time, could they come out with a sentence in English when you checked?"
"Yes, we want the contract, every part of it to be complied with, and we do feel that all of the parts of the contract are important for the security of the mission."
"We know now that the JSF is 55 percent over the 2001 estimate."
"What I'm trying to get to here is that there seems to be a strong factual basis that we're not going to get to where we want to be on the JSF soon enough."
"I think it is time for us to take a broad look--and hopefully we can do this on the Subcommittee--at the various goals here."
"This is painful. There is a great deal of anger and despair, and it shouldn't shock anybody in this room that we are all looking for bad guys."
"I think one thing we have discovered today that there has been a significant breakdown of communication..."