I have been for and I continue to be for giving the States far more flexibility in the way they run the programs.

I don't believe that.

I do not agree with changes that I think will, in effect, break up Medicare and put more and more seniors at the mercy of the present private insurance system.

We could balance the budget, literally, in 15 minutes tomorrow afternoon.

Let us do it.

We can balance a budget in 7 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, without having dangerously low levels of commitment to Medicare and Medicaid.

The issue here is over the policies involving Medicare, Medicaid, education, the environment...

I am for balancing the budget in 7 years, but I want to protect the fundamental priorities of the American people.

We can balance the budget.

We have bent over backwards to reach good faith, honorable, principled compromise.

We remain ready at any moment to sit down in good faith with Republicans and Democrats in the Congress to work out an acceptable welfare reform plan.

I've been for that since 1993.

I think the American people—I would just remind the American people, we've been through this for 4 years now.

He was a tireless and effective advocate of U.S. interests, especially the promotion of U.S. exports and commercial ties.

We have certainly learned a lot from each other.

The current welfare system is broken and must be replaced, for the sake of the taxpayers who pay for it and the people who are trapped by it.

I was deeply saddened to learn of the death today of our Ambassador to Switzerland, M. Larry Lawrence.

Larry's service to his country did not begin with his diplomatic assignment.