"I think it is important that we allow the President the staff to meet the demands that are placed upon him."
"The real problem is that corporate tax rates in this country, corporate plus local, are twice what they are in the average of the rest of the world."
"Just to talk a little bit about your work at Commerce, my perception is that our biggest problem with contracting is that we really do not know what we want when we go to contract for it."
"Well, you all should have somebody in your staff knows that answer."
"All your services revenue comes from Federal agencies. Is that your testimony?"
"our goal is to eliminate you as an agency."
"Well, I would like for you to answer that for the record, if you would."
"Do you happen to agree with what Senator Landrieu said, to make sure that if we are going to send money, it actually goes where it works instead of goes down the drain, like it has?"
"I think one thing we have done well is this program Partnership for Growth in El Salvador that sets out a framework that both Salvador and the United States agree on."
"If there is such an agreement, does it do anything to stem the tide of illegal alien children flowing to the United States?"
"The No. 1 message to stop this is planes arriving in Honduras and Guatemala with these children back home."