Job one, stabilize.
you have to have everything on the table. Spending, revenue, and every part of Federal spending has to be dealt with.
there is nobody that could have participated in this process that did not conclude this tax system that we have is just ...
I hope history will record the same for your leadership.
if we are going to take on this issue, it is going to require dramatic cuts in Government spending, but it is also going...
I personally believe the Federal response did avert what could have been a financial collapse.
I think that demonstrates that we can reach across the aisle to do things that are critically important for the country.
I just want to make a correction.
the Congress and the policymakers, we have to walk and chew gum at the same time.
I supported extending the tax cuts. I supported extending all of them because I believed the economy was in such weak co...
I do not think Congress, the House or the Senate, are going to be very interested in bailouts to States.
we will focus on challenges that are facing the U.S. economic recovery
I believe that the deficit and debt reduction plan assembled by the President's Fiscal Commission on which I served got ...
the budget problem that presents us with, instead of having several hundred billion dollars a year coming in from Social...
I believe this debt threat is an imminent threat to the Nation.
The Obama administration has failed miserably in that regard. It has focused on consumption and fiscal stimulation that ...
We knew we were right.
The problem that we run into in a budget context is those bonds that Social Security holds that are real assets.