White House Chiefs of Staff

I don't think anybody has ever been charged criminally with a violation of the antideficiency statute.

We take the antideficiency statute very, very seriously. If they have been broken, we will follow the rules.

I love CRAs. As a bureaucrat, which for better or worse is what I am now--I am a member of the bureaucracy, I am a member of the executive branch of government, I am a bureaucrat, I am one director for one bureau, right--clarity is my…

I would suggest to you, as I suggested to Mr. Hensarling and Senator Crapo, that I could have come in, made my presentation, kicked back my feet up on the table, twiddled my thumbs, and not answered a single question.

Actually, it is a little deeper than that, Mr. Chairman. It is not that I don't have to appear before the Appropriation Committees.

There is no reason for folks to know this, but when we sent up the supplemental on the forest fires, we included a bunch of land management reforms because we know that, if you don't fix it, you are just going to have the same problems…

The budget we sent up last year is the largest proposed reform of mandatory spending in the history of budgets.

We have made some really good proposals on how to change, for example, Social Security Disability Insurance, how to fix payments in Medicare to non-Medicare folks.

This is not a Republican thing. It is bipartisan.

What that agency does in managing the Federal estate is phenomenally important.

I am a little disturbed.

I don't think most Americans realize how pervasive it is in everything they do, from buying groceries to buying a house to clothes for their children to paying for healthcare expenses.

As we travel our districts and talk to small business owners and entrepreneurs... they feel palpable reductions in weight from the Federal Government.

The good news is, I think the last time I looked at this, writ large, we were 16 to 1 for a while and then 22, 23 to 1 after that.

It may be, Mr. Yoder, that individual agencies are not compliant right now.

I think everybody has, Mr. Yoder. If that is not the case, we will clarify.

I absolutely agree, Mr. Bishop.

We absolutely will continue to work with you.

there is no substitute for actually going to look at stuff on the ground.

Because we have been right so far, and the CBO has been wrong. That is why they should trust us.

I serve the law. I serve the statute. That is what I do.

If I am going to run a government agency like that, I am going to do it with humility toward those we serve.

Elizabeth Warren didn't think that a Republican would ever win a Presidency.

I think if you have a five-member commission, it sort of reduces the dramatic swings that you might get from a single-person Director.