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There's a culture in this town, which is an insider culture. That's what I think people outside of Washington legitimately can't stand ... From the outside, if you're just watching TV and all you're hearing about is the reports, people may get the false impression that somehow [the insiders] are the folks we're spending more time listening...
...feels like a ghost town,” says Jacqueline N. Nkuebe ’10, a Winthrop House resident who is staying on campus during January. “It’s nice that it’s quiet and also bad that it’s quiet, but I have some friends that are on campus...
What do you mean, "Don't get too comfortable"? Don't get too comfortable in the sense that there's a culture in this town, which is an insider culture. That's what I think people outside of Washington legitimately can't stand. A sense that they're not being heard. I think we've done actually a pretty good job of working in this town without being completely consumed by it. But from the outside, if you're just watching TV and all you're hearing about is the reports, people may get the false impression that somehow...
...fact, I spend most of my time listening to the people who - through their letters or through town-hall meetings or in my travels throughout the country - are telling me the stories of hardship and heartache. Losing their house because they don't have health insurance. That's what moves us here, but that's not always what comes across in the day-to-day combat that we're going through...
...that pivot, then, is to say, "How are we going to make sure that we squeeze every ounce of value out of every dollar that we spend?" We began that process with Pentagon reform. And the victories that [Secretary of Defense Robert] Gates helped win are ones that this town completely discounted when we started. We are scrubbing the budget once again to make sure that every program that we're funding actually has some justification - it actually works. Yesterday we had a whole bunch of CEOs and innovators here to talk about modernization of government. The infrastructure bank falls...