"I have been in enough of these, and that is the expected answer from any Administrator--of course it is not in the policy."
"We are concerned about the culture."
"The first goal is to instill equity. We know that these DEI initiatives have had a discriminatory aspect in it."
"There was a lot of understanding in the first couple of weeks that this was novel, and we had to figure it out."
"Well, I'm guessing like every other agency that makes a mistake or has failures in the Federal Government, they'll probably come and same, 'Well, we need more money and more authorities.'"
"What are we doing to make sure that we don't tread on people's civil rights again?"
"What are we doing to make sure that we don't threaten the licenses of medical professionals who are experts in the field that might have a different view?"
"How are we going to make sure that the government stays in check so that we can begin to restore the trust in the American people?"
"I think we need to focus on the people."
"I have learned in my time here that anytime there is a bill that basically is apple pie and puppy dogs and everything that we should really look into what is going on into this bill."
"This affects less than 1 percent of our military... there are a whole lot of things we can do that would better help our military."
"trust, but verify."