Ron Johnson

Can I get your commitment to check into that and get that report completed and released as soon as possible?

Encourage competition. Encourage people to put forward their request for proposals (RFPs).

In my experience, competition generally leads to a better result for the taxpayer and for the agency.

I hope to be vigilant with respect to counterterrorism, border security, the effective administration of our immigration laws, responding to natural disasters.

My first priority will be to work to fill the remainder of the management vacancies, if I am confirmed.

I think that in general, the professionals who I have consulted... seem to feel that we need to move in the direction of a risk-based approach to homeland security.

As you pose it, I think my answer would be no.

I would like to see DHS get off the GAO high-risk list.

Every time I have accepted a public service position, my overriding goal is to leave the position a little bit better than I found it.

I think we in the Executive Branch and in the FISA court need to be skeptical.

I want to call on my colleagues, both Democrat and Republican, to join me in voting to confirm him as soon as possible.

I chose it based on whether I could get a job and what that job would pay.

We are truly doing a service to our--disservice to our kids.

I really believe the Federal Government has a role in basic research because there's no profit motive

Achievement really requires rigor and hard work, and that's the message we need to start really conveying to our young people.

The slowly growing cancer in America is a growing culture of entitlement and dependency

I really would like to think that we can have politics end at the water's edge.

From my standpoint, we are dealing with the fiscal situation here. We are dealing with financial problems.

If there is one thing that has driven me nuts as an accountant is the inability to come up with a common set of numbers.

It seems to me that one solution is to include more long-term care costs within Medicare, perhaps raising premiums, raising taxes, raising payroll taxes.

Again, to me we are quibbling with details when you are talking about $96 billion--what difference would it make?

It is just a matter of a policy decision by the Congress.

I worry about the projected growth of health care costs in a lot of these actuarial assumptions.

If it were up to me, I would set you free. I am incredibly impressed with what you are trying to do and the challenges you face.

We agree that Medicare needs to be fixed. All we are asking for is a level playing field.