"People--if they are not being held accountable, they do not want to be held accountable--and transparency is what holds them accountable."
"You have lost their confidence--and that is not one party--that is both parties."
"What we need is a simpler, fairer, and flatter tax code, so that everybody pays something."
"The important thing is to restore the confidence in the country, in terms of what you are doing, why you are doing it, and how you are doing it."
"It's unclear to what extent the air marshal program is reducing risk to aviation security, despite the more than $820 million annually that is spent on the program."
"People say, 'Well, they are not crazy.' But sometimes individual government leaders such as Adolf Hitler are mad north by northwest."
"We have a very serious problem from the point of view of deterring particularly a country such as Iran or North Korea."
"I think we are way underfunded, but I think we need to have better oversight."
"We need a drug development system that encourages innovators to pursue breakthrough cures."
"Millions of Americans are suffering and dying from untreatable diseases or the lack of better treatment options."
"If the FDA becomes a block to that, then we are in trouble."