"Our acquisition challenges are real. With these systemic challenges, it is not surprising that we have not resolved problems exemplified by the V-22 Osprey."
"We should not need the GAO to identify problems with continual and unforeseen increases in cost."
"I hope that we can use the lessons from the V-22 to identify steps that we can take to avoid repeating these mistakes in the future."
"I cannot hear you."
"Yes, but in this particular case we have a report from the GAO that says that in this, with respect to the V-22, this is a chronic problem."
"Dr. Rivolo, you use some pretty strong language. You used the word 'reprehensible.' You used the word 'disingenuous' to describe the Marine Corps management of this project and this particular aircraf..."
"But Dr. Romer, you don't have any study that says, hey, that is the one variable that somehow would get our handles around the cost of rising health care?"
"To begin with, in terms of health care costs you outlined the President's goals."
"I think the other way that the two go together is just in a practical sense, that at a time when you are thinking about doing an expansion of care to the millions of Americans that are not covered now..."
"I urge you to come up with a number that reminds the American people of what that would be if we in fact do not have health care reform."
"The human face of health care reform is real; it is 46 million Americans and rising without any health insurance."
"We cannot put a price on a child's life; however, we can recognize that it is far more cost effective to proactively treat the symptoms of appendicitis rather than treat the results of a burst appendi..."