"if you can lead the Senate to finally do something about our fiscally irresponsible ways and the skyrocketing national debt, you will have done the greatest service that anybody could do to our countr..."
"I think there is a real occasion here for a grand bargain with the American people."
"My only hope would be that...everything truly is on the table, that no program is sacred."
"Everything, from entitlement spending to tax policy, would be on the table."
"Got to get the technology right. Where's the IT guy?"
"I still got a lot of folks knocking on my Senate office door saying, you know, we're in the midst of kind of this opaque area in the Immigration Service?"
"I'd like to see, now that this information is out into the public, have the laggard offices picked up that, has that seen any improvement?"
"I thought it was pretty cool, this notion of the competition between offices."
"So what's next in the queue? If you've got CIS, and I know you've also received some attention on the G.I. Bill, but are there other areas that we can expect to see soon?"
"I mean, clearly, the first round of reporting on the Recovery Act, to say the least, caused some consternation."
"What we need to start doing is breaking down these contracts into smaller chunks and moving more toward fixed price contracts."
"I would hope that might include... some oversight in that process, so a look-back in that process."