"If all we do by eliminating rural housing under USDA is require you to have significant monitoring responsibilities that you currently do not have any way to deal with, be sure that we understand that as part of why this duplication exists and why it makes more sense."
"It is time we measured how much we cared by the results we got."
"I really don't agree that the no-fly effort in Libya should be that difficult."
"I think we should be more aggressively using the tools we have there."
"I frankly think the threat of a no-fly zone, if we could put any group together, so it wouldn't be solely an American effort, a United States effort is worth vigorously pursuing."
"I thought the veto in the United Nations last week was a good thing to do."
"Thank you for your work, and thank you for your ability to talk about so many issues so well."
"So there was a 36-percent increase from 2008 to 2010."
"I've always said that government is the last place where you measure how much you care about something by how much money you spend on it instead of the results you see."
"I really do want to be supportive of the extraordinary things you're being asked to do."
"I commend the Subcommittee for its past work and Chairman McCaskill for her dedication to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government contracting."