"The only way out, in my view, is privatization. And I think, you know, Congress can put this off and put it off. In the end, it's going to happen because it has to to survive, it has to diversify."
"I think there's a death spiral here. I think that ultimately Congress is going to have to do a major reform."
"You need to protect consumers by opening up the USPS to competition, at the same time, giving them the flexibility."
"His original intent was to include all surviving families."
"It's time to make sure Guard and Reserve surviving families have the same access to the Fry Scholarship as their Active duty counterparts."
"In my view, there should be. These sorts of government investments should be subject to a detailed cost-benefit analysis."
"There are a trillion dollars--trillions of dollars available for private investment."
"I don't think Congress should appropriate any more money for these programs. I think the time for federal subsidies, if there ever was one, has passed."
"It certainly wasn't transparent, and I think as this committee has investigated in past hearings, that initially there were not the proper checks and balances in place for a lot of these loans."
"These projects were going to get built, and when federal subsidies were layered in, it just meant that the investors like Warren Buffett and others earned higher returns than otherwise."
"It does seem to me that you can divide the section 1703 and 1705 projects into two sort of pots."