Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we are going to do something this evening. Unless you want to sort of geek out a bit, I am not sure you want to hang out watching this, so maybe there is something good on Netflix. I am going to walk through a couple of financial debt concepts I tried sharing last week just to help people sort of get their heads around something. Then we are going to actually just go through a couple of top lines on the Social Security actuary report. Now, I have to admit, I haven't finished it. We have only just gone through some of the very top line. It is going to take me a week or two to work out all the math. We want to make sure--because some of the headlines, I believe, were misleading on just, still, how difficult these numbers are. Then we are going to go through sort of understanding the scale of the problem. Then we are going do a little bit of talking about optimism, and we are going to do some discussion about AI, artificial intelligence, in government, and some of the bills we have actually already introduced to disrupt the cost of this government. We keep hearing sort of the nasty and horrible noise that the world is coming to an end. I am going to argue that if we get artificial intelligence right, we can make a difference in government. So let's first walk through the first concept. Mr. Speaker, how many of you remember a little while back--I think it was S&P or was it Moody's--it may have been Moody's, downgraded U.S. debt? We have had two downgrades.…”