Tom Coburn actually said...

"you would work to avoid any undue influence, how do you do that when you have a Member of Congress or a significant management officer at Homeland Security trying to influence you?"

"I am extremely disturbed by the responses to the questionnaire because the staff...has cut and pasted the identical answers."

"I think it is important to have you do an analysis of that from where you stand with your experience and then get back to us within 6 months on what your thoughts are."

"I will not consider that his questionnaire has been completed."