I agree with the President. That is exactly what we do not want to do. We want fixed-price contracts.

I would suggest, besides what Senator Collins said, put Ad Council ads on TV for seniors about these scams.

One of the problems that we have in the Federal Government is Congress telling us how we budget.

I am hearing that you plan to move USAspending.gov to Recovery.gov, which scares me to death based on what I see in Recovery.gov.

Thirty-six billion of it is wasted. The American taxpayer needs to know that.

What we ought to be doing is redoubling our efforts to where we get that down to about 2 or 3 percent.

I have heartburn over the $787 billion. I have heartburn over the $55.1 billion.

As a fundamental matter of fairness, if you owe taxes to your government, you ought to pay them.

I do have one central concern: That we not drive capital out of this country.

The U.S. boasts the following dubious distinctions: The 2nd-highest corporate tax rate in the world at 40 percent.

Should there be?

I am intrigued by your voluntary disclosure process. I think that is a message that needs to go out to this country.

The World Bank ranks the U.S. 76th on having a low burden of business taxes and tax compliance costs.

We are going to find you, in other words.

It is just simply a matter of fairness that if you owe taxes in the country, you ought to pay them.

The earmarks, if you total them up, are less than 1 percent of the $410 billion, so we're not talking about a huge amount.

At the end of the day, attitude is everything.

I think there really is a very strong bipartisan constituency for this sort of thing...