Judd Gregg: “It should not now be used as a piggy bank for housing.”

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.

To get this done, you are going to have to have compromise--compromise on both sides of the aisle.

I happen to think that if you're going to do budgets and you're going to pass budgets on a partisan basis, the budget becomes irrelevant.