Judd Gregg: “I leave it to the good offices of the chairman of the committee, who is an exceptional floor leader, to tell me when he…”

I think the appropriate way to approach this is to set the size of the government as a percent of GDP.

Had it been actually a legislative vehicle versus a commission, we probably would be out of the woods right now on our deficit and debt issues.

I think in order to get Republican buy-in on further revenues you are going to have to do policy changes in entitlement accounts that bend the curves in the outyear in a very substantial way, and make it clear that those accounts are…

I think you have to act to show seriousness of purpose as soon as possible.