Judd Gregg

I think one of the reasons we are having problems with the marketplace is there is such uncertainty about where the Government is going to go.

I do think the Government has to step into this mortgage issue much more aggressively than we have.

I think we have to figure out where the Government can be most constructive in addressing the core problems.

He told me in a phone call about 10 days ago that he knows this is not going to be fun and it is not going to be easy, but that it simply must be done.

Our Federal Reserve is in a very tough position. It has two goals: sustaining the economy and price stability.

The problem with what we are doing right now is injecting capital from the taxpayer into institutions.

You have been the voice in the wilderness for a little while.

Maybe we can take a little bit more, but we sure cannot take 31 percent of the gross national product and spend it.

It is really the fiscal tsunami that is going to overwhelm our capacity as a Nation to be prosperous.

I think we should heavily tilt the stimulus package toward investment-based activity--you know, bridges, roads, infrastructure, fiberoptics, whatever--that is going to give us a return.

There are a lot of ideological issues here. You know, as a conservative, I obviously have an inherent dislike of having the Government expand dramatically and having, obviously, deficits of this size.

Those two numbers lead inevitably to disaster and cannot be tolerated for an extended period of time.