For it to survive, you have to end up putting revenue into the mix.

I am sure people are scratching their heads, as I am, wondering, why is the President not sitting down with top congressional leaders and saying, how do we avoid this, as opposed to, I am sad to say, the President does not seem very…

Without the President we do not get it done ought to be the hue and cry from the Congress and the people of this country.

the lower the tax, the better in terms of the economy and its capability to produce and grow.

I think you raise a good point. We have to be careful about the issue you raised. It is a serious one.

We may not know all the answers that you seek of us because we did not have a lot of time to study in detail the more intricate health care issues.

Frankly, I think we gave you a plan that is really doable.

We are now talking about something different. We are talking about the ratio of debt-to-GDP.

I want to say to you first, as a former Republican Senator, remember that we put our plan together starting with bipartisan membership.

You cannot imagine being on my side of the aisle now, where I cannot do what you do.

It has fallen to me since I left the Senate, for almost half of the time that I have been gone, that I have devoted time and energy to trying to come up with ways and means to help this great Nation get out of the terrible dilemma that we…

I think it is very important, for some of you who have gone through lame duck, to make sure that you know it is not the best choice of an arena to which you would assign the solution of major problems.