"However, it is a misuse of authority for a Federal employee to use his or her public office to interfere with a Presidential nomination or the Senate confirmation process."
"So you deny that you encouraged them to spread around complaints, using government resources, that Dr. Cuffari was unqualified for the position, that his degree was issued by a diploma mill?"
"Did you use any government resources--email, telephone, government property? Did you work on this project on government time?"
"I frankly think it is very disappointing, and I think the fact that we now have multiple whistleblowers coming to us..."
"This is serious, what I read in this report. I hope this is not normal."
"I am disappointed that we are here and that this is, frankly, it has come to this impasse..."
"I always take whistleblower complaints very seriously, and they pointed me to the WilmerHale report, which I have now read, which I have to say is very disturbing."
"I have written them to that effect."
"I think it`s incumbent upon Democrats to raise the debt ceiling. They can do it. They need to get on with it."
"If this isn’t a deliberate attempt to chill parents from showing up at school board meetings, for their elected school boards, I don’t know what is."
"I cannot believe that an attorney general of the United States is engaging in this kind of conduct. And frankly, I can’t believe that you are sitting here today defending it."