If you cut taxes when you are in a deficit situation and borrow to make up the difference, all you are really doing is shifting that tax to the next generation.

I think if Tom Brokaw wrote a book about our generation, it would be called 'The Great Skedaddle' after the first Battle of Bull Run.

It is our generation being unwilling to pay our own bills. And we are borrowing from our kids.

Poverty, because of good work of people like Senator Sanders, has dramatically decreased among seniors over the last 50 years.

I just think we have got to do something about this, and we have got to do it in a comprehensive way.

The arithmetic does not work. And, I think of the No Tax Pledge as a kind of ratchet that only works in one direction.

It is much easier to spend than it is to tax. So, deficits are almost hard-wired into the system unless there is a discipline.

If you put a balanced budget amendment on top of that situation, with the mandatory rise caused mostly by health care and demographics, and that is all you do, you squeeze the shortfall down into the discretionary budget and essentially…

I think long-term debt and deficits are unsustainable and are, in fact, burdening future generations and the interest rate.

sequestration was designed to be stupid.

You cannot turn on and off the industrial base.

the sequester is like invading Brazil after Pearl Harbor.

When you have to delay a multiyear procurement, for example, you end up paying more in the end.

Americans' lives are being put at risk by this policy.

I am touched by your faith in bipartisanship to solve difficult problems, but not fully confident.

Problems put off rarely get easier to solve with the passage of time.

I do not in any way, shape, or form want to see cuts in disability benefits.

2033 is going to come, and what I fear is we will have taken a series of steps... and we will have run out of places to hide.