12/01/2009
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"I believe we have a culture, a history, a heritage of limited government and we have accelerated our debt situation through a number of bad decisions."
"I just would say that any--maybe you would--my time is about up, so if any of the two of you who have not commented, I wish you would."
"What was happening politically and morally was we were losing our discipline and people were buying into that language."
"As I have come to realize, the actuarial unsoundness of Medicare and Social Security, you really cannot do that."