America incarcerates more people per capita than any of the world's democracies.

I put in a piece of legislation called the STEM Master Teacher Corps, which is basically to support excellent STEM teachers.

I think that is the case. We are going to go negative. We are going to lose jobs.

I started the application process, eventually achieving a coveted nomination to the U.S. Naval Academy from Senator Paul Sarbanes.

We just have to say, that is not what is going to happen.

I think you raise a good point. We have to be careful about the issue you raised. It is a serious one.

I am not sure it is happening. We have to wait a little bit longer.

That did not reduce any beneficiaries' benefits, it just cut the amounts that providers were otherwise getting.

the lower the tax, the better in terms of the economy and its capability to produce and grow.

It seems to me that sooner or later something has to be done. The economy is suffering from an awful lot of people not knowing what is going to happen.

I think without a doubt there is an awful lot of restraint in this economy because people have to spend all their time doing things that are unproductive--like filling out tax forms.

To me, it does not [seem like a good tax].

We are currently working on a process which would assure that we could have the vote on the tax cuts.

If it is adopted, or something close to it, you will have fixed, in our opinion, a major problem with Medicare.

It has fallen to me since I left the Senate, for almost half of the time that I have been gone, that I have devoted time and energy to trying to come up with ways and means to help this great Nation get out of the terrible dilemma that we…

If indeed you intend to have a bipartisan solution, then obviously you have to do some of the things we are talking about, some give-and-take.

You cannot imagine being on my side of the aisle now, where I cannot do what you do.

I believe that that has to happen. I guess the rest is, I hope it happens, and the sooner the better, in my mind.