"the Bush administration has added nearly $8 trillion to the national debt versus where the budget was planned to go."
"Do we presently have an authority in government that can oversee the dynamic process of engagement?"
"I think we are headed into, I think, a fiscal crisis that is going to make the current economic problem look like a picnic."
"We have three major significant problems to deal with. We have one supply of political capital to deal with them."
"I applaud the more honest picture that this budget presents."
"It strikes me that the problem here is that in order to achieve those large reductions, a considerable amount of executive management, of experimentation, of flexible and dynamic regulatory activity g..."
"George Bush's Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has written recently that there is $1 trillion a year of excess cost in our health care system, and he is no fool, is he?"
"Thank you very much, Director. Let me first tell you how much we appreciate the work that you did back in, I guess, 2008, on the original IRIS process, which as GAO found lent itself to interference, ..."
"the president is always right."