I will tell you that perhaps there is a part of the narrative that is factual.

a 28-percent rate would be a positive rate, and it would put us in a position to be globally competitive.

I will tell you that the seven basis points that you increase it by may mitigate risk, but at the same time, it really passes on a greater burden to the consumer.

The proposal from the President actually impedes the ability for small and minority business owners to transfer wealth.

You have done something that I am very surprised at, and it almost bewilders me.

the conversation that we're having seems to be inconsistent with the experience that I had.

Our job is to put America's middle class on solid economic ground, lift wages, and make sure that everybody benefits when the economy grows.

Those kind of efforts, particularly in terms of education, they are absolutely key to repairing this pretty tattered ladder of opportunity.

Let us work for that.

There has to be a way to help the middle class who are hurting, like that auto worker, and get people out from under the bureaucratic water torture.

I am of the view that we grow the economy from the middle out, that you have to get the relief to a broad spectrum of middle-class Americans.

I have been working 10 years to get to this spot. You have been here for 3 weeks.

The fact is, too many middle-class Oregonians are hurting.

To me, there are sort of three entrants in the discussion.

But let me just say that, since they agreed through the IMF that they were not going to do this, they have done it like 300 times, something like that; I have seen the number.

I think it is probably in the eyes of the beholder sometimes.

I think frankly that is unacceptable and that the customers, the consumers in this country, should be served better than that.

I would hope to continue to work on this issue of trying to establish what we think would be without unreasonable delay and trying to perhaps put better guardrails on that.