02/23/2010
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"if you don't give them the money and the budget and the tools to get the job done, then you are basically telling them that you don't think very much of the job that you are asking them to do."
"I really want to publicly express my appreciation to you for the work that we are doing together to try and get DHS off the High-Risk List."
"The point is that you have got to have the budget to do that."
"I regularly remind my colleagues that when we established the Department, we initiated the Federal Government's largest restructuring since the Department of Defense."