Our people yearn for more challenge and responsibility. It is because we are encrusted by our rules and encumbered by our process. Like many of you, I approach my task by enunciated governing principles. First, our mission will be to serve people, not programs. Second, we will have the discipline to stick to our mission.
Mission creep is mission death.
Third, we will be good stewards of our resources. Fourth, we will observe the highest ethical standards. This means more than prosecuting graft. It means rejecting the subtler corruption of settling for good appearances rather than insisting on good results. These are our governing principles.