"Instead of repeatedly attacking these key Federal workers, Congress should be pursuing ways to retain their expertise."
"Disparaging the workforce does not get you skilled workers."
"I think there is the will among senior people in these agencies to do it, but they need help doing it."
"Mr. Chairman, I just want to thank you. This is our first hearing of this new subcommittee, and I think you have set a tone of collaboration, cooperation, and bipartisanship."
"I think it is very dangerous business, frankly, when we question the legitimacy or implicitly question the legitimacy of an election."
"The fact of the matter is Morsi won an election, whether it was 51 percent or 80 percent, he won."
"To me, the real question is can the Muslim Brotherhood evolve to some level of acceptable democratic governance."
"Count me skeptical on that question."
"The emerging relationship that did not exist heretofore between the United States and India it seems to me is definitely in our mutual best interest."
"I am very worried about that expression because presumably it means more than deterring pirates."
"TARP has been a great success, so it is very difficult to answer that question."