We think we have some options to offset it.

I ask for the support of the Congress in being willing to reexamine all of our assumptions.

We want to reduce the deficit by $500 billion.

Every small business in your State has a chance to lower its tax burden by investing more in its business.

I think if we prove we can take the tough decisions now and we're rewarded for it by resuming control of our own destiny, I don't think we'll have this level of partisanship on any other issue.

Most working parents will be held harmless from the impact of the fuel tax by an offset in their income tax.

Federal agencies shall place high priority on obtaining funding and resources needed for implementing all aspects of this order.

I am extremely pleased at the swift and determined action by the U.S. Senate in overwhelmingly confirming Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the United States Supreme Court.

I have to face the fact that that's where it is.

I'll give the Judge Ginsburg answer: That's for you to determine.

I don't think it has anything to do with principle, and I don't think it's personal.

We're going to cut spending more and more and more, but we need the revenues, too.

Too often in the past, judicial nominations have prompted a partisan brawl and generated more heat than light.

This fuel tax increase is quite modest and, for example, will be a much lower burden on fuel than the Btu tax.

There will be many more budget cuts.

The Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 established that it is the national policy of the United States that, whenever feasible, pollution should be prevented or reduced at the source.

Tonight I will address the Nation about my plans to put our economic house in order.

This plan has 200 specific spending cuts, and it reduces Government spending by more than $250 billion.