"We are going to get to the bottom of this and we are either going to move forward or we will find another avenue."
"I am trying to figure out, why did we do this?"
"I will only say to my colleagues and to those from the VA, I am not going to let this out of my teeth."
"We are not provided this information. We are not going to be able to give you specific recommendations that you can act on?"
"I have deep respect for Senator Harkin--debating tobacco. And at that point, the FDA was the only agency in the world that could regulate tobacco."
"I trust my colleague. He said our goal is to only get safe products to market."
"We needed better outcomes, we needed more investment to make sure that the outcomes of the American people were, in fact, better."
"Earlier this year at one of our hearings, I think a number of organizations testified that the VA Appeals Management Center should be dissolved. They called it a black hole."
"I happen to believe, as you know, that the disability system needs to be, for the lack of a better word, updated to reflect where we are and the new ways that we have got to think in the future."
"I think a process that takes that long is indefensible. Our veterans and their families deserve better."
"Perhaps the most significant shortcomings of the current system of veterans' benefit determinations and their judicial review is the delay that veterans face."