"I know you also did not want to see the death of Brian Terry. None of us did."
"But that is consistent with the FBI process, is that correct?"
"It is one thing to talk about it after the fact. It is another thing to try to fix it so it doesn't become such a bureaucratic maze that nothing happens."
"The last thing I want to say to the Terry family... is that there is some way to be able to say this is never going to occur again."
"I already prefaced this by saying I do not anticipate this--I am making a statement. I do not expect the Attorney General to respond to this."
"I appreciate your open communication that you have started: more press conferences, more communication."
"There is a limited amount of liquid capital at any moment worldwide, and every country is competing for it at a higher rate."
"That would be the definition of unsustainable, that we suddenly cannot get the money at the rate that we need it for in other countries."
"What this has done is for political expediency of the President, to make him look tough, to fight against the allegations that you've been weak in the past."
"The issue still remains though, the day-to-day operation of nuclear safety, and the decisions that you make are significant in this."
"Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government."
"The process was delayed for months while the agencies struggled to find ways, in our opinion, to inject a new criteria to alter the funding process."