If my roof has a hole in it and the rain comes in, the sooner I fix that, the less my family's long-term cost of that repair.

Medicare is the big item, to quote you, Dr. Johnson.

The stories are just appalling.

It would be a human tragedy to do so, and we can avoid it if we are responsible about delivery system reform in the time that we now have.

I would like you to put Government support for solar industry in the context of the development of that industry in international competition and the role of technological leadership in securing future economic opportunity and advantage.

It is fair to conclude that investment in this emerging technology provides cumulative benefits as we enhance our competitive position.

We have seen a considerable number of technologies in which American ingenuity invented the technology, but foreign countries took advantage of the development phase.

In the economic race to remain dominant in this emerging and fast growing international market, there are actually two races we need to win.

I happen to believe that very, very significant savings can be achieved that way.

Our budget does not really reflect in any way that I can find the infrastructure deficit that we have.

I think your points about having a proper capital budget are essentially right. We should do that.

I really applaud what the President has done with the infrastructure fund.

You can go after Medicare with fiscal knives anytime you like.

I have to say that my single greatest reservation about it is that I worry that it will be populated with a lot of people who are fiscal, economic brilliant people but who don't really have the specialized sense of how delivery system…

Isn't it advisable to try to move through that uncertainty as quickly as possible?

We are prolonging the agony by continuing to forbid the residential home owner... to simply go to bankruptcy court.

That, to me, is one of the real values of focus on delivery system reform, because it is really a win-win.

I just want to push back a little bit against what I thought was your implied theory that this would be something novel or peculiar if we allowed this to happen.