Tom Carper actually said...

"I think it is important for us to identify best practices."

"If we remain on our current course, our debt may double again by the end of this decade."

"Most of us in this room today, however, understand that we simply cannot cut our way out of debt, tax our way out of debt, or save our way out of debt."

"If we want to be competitive, we have to specialize, that is to say we have to out-educate, out-innovate, out-compete everybody else."