I believe that we are already in the early stages of a fiscal train wreck.
The President has to lead. The President has to say, 'This is what I would do to fix this problem.'
we did get 11 of 18 to agree--five Democrats, five Republicans, one Independent. And we reduced the debt $4 trillion ove...
The only thing worse than being for this is being against it.
I give him credit for stabilizing the debt, but it is stabilized at a level that is too high.
I believe history will condemn us all if we do not do substantially more for the decade than is in this budget.
We have to get the deficit down to about 3 percent of GDP in order to stabilize debt.
The longer we wait, the higher Federal debt becomes.
I think that is interference in State local affairs that we do not really need.
I do not believe in Federal bailouts because I think that is unfair to the frugal States.
Our country is in serious trouble.
I am in the Sessions camp on this.
My own belief is that we need to put in place a plan this year to get our fiscal house back in order.
We have seen some progress made--in fact, important progress made.
We are on an unsustainable course, and we have an obligation, we have a very serious and somber obligation to come up wi...
I personally believe you and then Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson, followed by this administration, have taken st...
Clearly, that cannot continue for very long.
You have to adopt a plan. You have to put it in place.
