Bill Clinton: “It's not as simple as splitting the difference. It's not just--there's more than money at stake here. There are policies…”

“It's not as simple as splitting the difference. It's not just--there's more than money at stake here. There are policies at stake. And if you split the difference, again, according to the rules of the Congressional Budget Office, there must be policies which back up whatever number that you pick. So that's why I say that if we know we can balance the budget and we know it will work over 7 years, we shouldn't go beyond that in any kind of gratuitous cuts in Medicare and Medicaid that will require policy changes that either we may have to back up on, which will undermine the credibility of the agreement, or that could do serious damage to the programs. The First Lady”