Karen Evans Quotes

"The vision of this, when the president signed off on this, was that when you are granted an ID card at one agency, then that same ID card would work at another agency -- that you won't need 10 to 15 ID cards to get into different buildings."

"A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do."

"Project management is still a major category of weakness for the agencies. It is still one of the weaknesses [for the government as a whole]."

"We want to look at whether these functions such as financial management are core to the agencies' mission, or should they spend money to get data from a shared service provider. We really want people to look at this, and we will work with them as they move forward."