I want to thank you for that as well, because this budget really does reflect being responsible about how we get where we want to go to save dollars.

You are exploding the size of health care spending on top of health care spending which already exceeds any other industrialized country in the world by about 5 percent of GDP.

If we had not done the first TARP, we would have faced an outright economic collapse.

I think what we have done is destroyed the ability of the Congress to come together.

we are essentially putting on our children's backs a debt which they can never get out from underneath.

I have a lot of hope that we can find consensus on this issue.

this budget, as it is presently constructed, passes on to our children a Nation which they will not be able to afford and which will potentially drive this country into bankruptcy.

there is going to have to be flexibility on how the funds are used.

I have described the President's budget as a 'good beginning.'

This budget extends the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for everybody earning below $250,000 a year.

the budget as is, in my judgment, just as it has been written, probably can't pass here.

it would be an utterly empty exercise around here not to get the votes to actually pass things.

I am very concerned about the second 5 years.

If you are at 23 percent of GDP for spending, and you only get your revenues up to 18.2 percent of GDP, you have got a structural deficit of 5 percent of GDP.

The outrage of people cannot be dismissed.

A handful of people created, through excessive greed and dishonestly creating all of these esoteric financial tools which nobody understands.

We will be judged whether we were responsible or not.

my own view is it will probably be in that 4 percent of GDP range as they do their own rescoring of all of this.