Joe Lieberman

He has done so much. It is important to note that he spearheaded some developments during that period of time, particularly the removal of nuclear weapons from Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus.

Too much has changed for the worse.

It is a privilege for me to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee today to introduce Dr. Ash Carter.

The people really need to be given a basis for hope, honestly.

I think what you have done is worth supporting.

We cannot allow ourselves to become the Hamlet of nations, worrying endlessly over whether and how to respond.

How important a maximum out-of-pocket protection--how important that is and how this is the reason most Americans buy health insurance.

This proposal is very concerning to me because I think that it is a little bit shortsighted.

I believe that if reasonable minds can come together and forget the partisanship, we can figure this thing out.

Former Senator Joe Lieberman warned that stakeholders who are pushing for unpaid SGR reform bill could actually sink the chances of getting a permanent fix adopted by Congress.

It just seems----and we don't really say this enough and appreciate it enough----axiomatic, really self-evident that the part of why, generally speaking, we are living longer is because of the positive impact of prescription drugs.

But it would also be a shame to let this moment pass without fixing this.

If we agree on 60 percent or 70 percent or 80 percent on this given issue, let's do it.

If we just do nothing, we are really going to be in trouble.

Seize the moment.

It is not as if the current system is fair to everybody.

The public really wants Members to do things that aren't conventionally political.

If you have got the will, you can do that.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

The problem obviously is real statistically, as Dr. Rivlin said, under almost any imaginable set of scenarios.

If we do nothing, the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will become insolvent.

Tom agreed that we should put a limit on how much out of pocket a Medicare beneficiary would have to pay, and that will have a significant----real but also psychological----effect on our seniors.

The President's proposal takes care of more than a third of the cost of the SGR replacement reform.

Bipartisanship always comes as a result of negotiation and compromise and understanding that you are putting a larger interest, which is a national interest, ahead of a more focused interest.

If you are an organization representing physicians, for instance, and you push for this SGR replacement reform with no offset, the danger is----and it is a high risk----that nothing is going to happen and physicians are going to suffer.