"I would love to have the opportunity on another occasion to talk to you and address this and find out ways we could work together."
"I think we can make those efforts bipartisan."
"Will you commit to the subcommittee particularly not to reduce the Conscience Division that we have in the Office of Civil Rights?"
"I really want to work to keep those disagreements in balance to where we could still have a bipartisan outcome and a bipartisan budget."
"I think that reflects, Mr. Secretary, partly a great deal of confidence in you on both sides of the aisle."
"I love the Appropriations Committee. I mean, I really tell people I don't care if you are on the left or the right, the appropriators are deal makers in the end."
"I will be very clear there, and I don't do this in any kind of way to try and start a fight or whatever."
"Tom, you can have a deal or you can have a fight, but you can't have both."
"I think most of my Republican colleagues share that view. We think we live in an extraordinarily dangerous world right now."
"I simply think that is a wrong sense of priority."
"The level of proposed spending is simply unnecessary, irresponsible, and unacceptable."
"A proposed 41 percent increase for the Department of Education in a single year will leave the next generation saddled with the highest national debt our Nation has ever seen."