I was disappointed deeply that the stimulus package... only had about 3 percent of the budget for roads and bridges.
the $300 to $400 billion we spend, where money is offshored to bring in oil, is a huge, a huge burden on the American pe...
And I think that if we really care about the long-term living standards of Americans and workers, we need to cut our cor...
We face a lot of challenges. We do have a revenue shortfall and we cannot tax ourselves out of competitive world markets...
We believe that if we do not take decisive action, our Nation faces the most predictable crisis in history.
It would be good progress.
I am not in favor of precipitous, immediate fiscal austerity of the kind the British Government is now embarked on.
You quoted earlier that somebody said during the Bush administration, deficits do not matter.
I criticized the Bush administration. We had surpluses, and somehow it got around that deficits do not matter.
We cannot continue business as usual.
I value those comments.