Scott Peters actually said...

"Congress failed San Diego and America last week by not working together to find a sensible alternative to the sequester."

"We could turn the indiscriminate cuts in the sequester into targeted cuts that are part of a larger and balanced deficit reduction strategy."

"We can choose to continue down this path and let the American people down or we can decide to make a change."

"Finding common ground does not mean we have failed. It does not mean we have abandoned our principles."