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As you approach the resolution of an incredibly controversial issue, ideologically, politically and every other way, usually, you find excesses grow from that. But the president does not believe, nor do I believe it's racially based.
In 8 years we ran up as much new debt as we did in the first 208 years of our Nation's history.
I have spoken, I believe, with you before and with Mr. Zients about some work that is going on within the Department of Health and Human Services to try to go out and recover monies that have been improperly spent.
Was it Richard Nixon who used to say that the only people who do not make mistakes are people who do not do anything?
This year, we are on track to run up the biggest single-year deficit ever.
And I would just hope, as we extend the three-state demonstration for Medicare cost recovery to the other 47 States, that we will begin preparing to extend the same kind of cost-recovery approach to Medicaid.
The work that we are doing here, this is real money.
Given the kind of budgetary challenges that we face, it is imperative that we do that.
All right. A different question, a different area. As you know, progress has been made in recent years in improving the quality and, I think, the timeliness of agencies' financial statements.
I am pleased that the President has sent us such a qualified candidate for this position.
Have you all given some thought and attention to another related concern, and that is with respect to agencies making decisions to lease property as opposed to purchasing it?
Good. Well, I want you to tackle it, and I thank you.
It would not leave much of a future for your kids or for mine or for any of our children.
Tom Carper of Delaware... pressed the president behind closed doors to bend on that and specifically, to hold off on that so-called public option for several years.
Now, I want to be clear about something. Less bad is not good. That's not how President Obama and I measure success. We're not going to be satisfied any more than the governor is or anyone else is until we start adding, not losing…
Less bad is not good. That's not how President Obama and I measure success.
Don't you find it remarkable that one of the most partisan, liberal men in the last century, serving in the Senate, that so many of his foes embrace him, because they know he made them bigger.