One of the things that I talked about was that, when people said, 'We don't believe government can do a good job here; look at what government has done before,' I said, 'You have a point.'

Look, if we don't save the money that we are committed to save, that we have said we would save, that we will look at it again as a Congress and make sure we have those savings.

Medicare, as a result was spending $17 billion a year on these hospital re-admissions that could have been prevented.

One of the things I learned during the health care debate was that, because of the way the incentive structure worked, one out of every five Medicare beneficiaries that went to the hospital were re-admitted within a month for conditions…

If I had to sum up the last 2 years of my town hall meetings in Colorado on this issue, what I would say is that people are saying: We hated the system as it existed, the health insurance system, and we also believe deeply in your…

At the heart of this reform, in many ways, is an attempt, a rare attempt to actually change the incentive structures so that we can deliver higher quality at a lower cost.

What's with all the political games that everybody's playing?

What's with all the political games everybody's playing?

One of the saddest moments of my Senate career was learning that the observation that you're entitled to your own facts but not your own opinion, was not original with me.

If we don't deal with the deficit and the debt problem the capital markets are going to decide that question for us, and all of these programs are going to go away.

part of our job was to make sure we're creating more opportunity, not less, for our kids and our grandkids.