Judd Gregg: “We need stimulus badly, but we need it in the right places.”

The Simpson-Bowles Commission...came to the conclusion that on our present path this Nation goes bankrupt.

It makes no sense whatsoever, and it's apparently--certainly makes no sense for the same people to be urgently arguing to deal with climate change and then either quiet or urgently opposed to nuclear power.

In the end, you have to pay the debt ceiling because otherwise the government can't function, and the effect of that would be catastrophic.

the policies behind getting these numbers under control are extremely difficult politically, because they involve very tough decisions.