Bill Clinton actually said...

"How can you cut defense, freeze domestic spending, hold Social Security within inflation, have revenues growing, and have the deficit going up?"

"We're also talking about whether there's something more we can do to help the parties agree to solve the conflict."

"People get together like this and they argue and talk about real issues in the spirit of partnership, thinking about the future, focusing on how it affects ordinary people."

"If the Congress adopts it, it will keep the deficit coming down, it will keep interest rates down, it will send a clear signal to the Fed and to the rest of the world that we mean business."