Political Quotes

Thomas Coburn

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Jun 10, 2013

We can no longer do these 5-year, $100 million---if I ever see those, those are like an instant TechStat trigger for me.

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Jun 10, 2013

I am glad to hear those are the kind of decisions--we spent $500 million on a cost-plus contract that got us nothing on a handheld device for the Census, and nobody was held accountable for it, nobody got canned.

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Jun 10, 2013

What politicians in Washington put out as fact are not fact.

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Jun 10, 2013

We have, if you count intelligence organizations, far in excess of $80 billion a year.

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Jun 10, 2013

So you do not know where all your stuff is right now.

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Jun 10, 2013

Well, if I just added up what he indicated in his testimony, it was well in excess of $30 billion.

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Jun 10, 2013

One of our problems in purchasing IT--and the reason I asked about fixed-price contracting--is when you have contracting other than fixed price, what happens is either the person that is making the decision or the company that is not…

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May 21, 2013

the reason Danny Werfel, I think, was chosen is because he has demonstrated integrity in everything he has done in the Federal Government.

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May 21, 2013

I cannot think of anything off the top of my head.

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May 21, 2013

We have lost the countervailing weights of slowing things down.

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