“I appreciate the opportunity to serve, and I will try my best to be a leader, as Mr. Harper was. It's an important job, and it's something to wear with pride.”
“The process that we will be going through, we'll be starting that next week. Anything that you hear is truly going to be a rumor. When we bring the man or lady out that takes this seat, that's when you'll know who it is. We expect to do it very professionally.”
“I just hope we hire the best-qualified person for whatever job it may be. As long as we're hiring the best that we've got, I don't have a problem with any of it.”
“I remember being asked one time who was driving, and I guess I mumbled out me, but I don't recall. They said I was swearing up and down I was driving, but I wasn't, I don't remember that at all.”