We recognize that we want to take that in and then we want to work some more.

I would welcome the thoughts of General Donahoe on this.

we need entitlement reform that saves these programs, saves them for the next generation, saves money, and also does not savage old people or poor people.

We need tax reform to actually generate some revenues.

one of my top goals has been to not just help the Postal Service get by, but to help it be strong once again

I appreciate the 80 percent. I appreciate the 40 years. I think it is a step in the right direction.

Encouraging an approach to financial problems that would facilitate potentially large rate increases and service cuts, cuts needlessly and undermines the beneficial features of the bill.

we need tax reform to generate some revenues to go toward deficit reduction.

I am a glass-half-full guy, and I am a glass-half-full with respect to better containing the growth of health care costs in this country going forward.

I think one of the things that is missing right now to move our economy from a modest economic recovery to a robust economic recovery is concerns across this country, can we govern, can we be fiscally responsible as a country, can we…

I am willing to pay some more taxes. I just do not want you to waste the money.

At risk as well are the approximately 8 million jobs that depend on its continued vitality.

I applaud the way that you have really tried to right-size the enterprise.

The fact that not anybody really likes the end product is probably the sweet spot of where we need to end up being.

I do not see that as being unreasonable that Postal employees should--the 23 percent who are not currently taking advantage of Medicare, that they should not be encouraged to take advantage of Medicare, Part B.

What Dr. Coburn and I have said is this: It is almost like a 40-year mortgage.

Every week at this time there is a Bible study group that meets over by the Capitol and one of the things that Barry Black always tells us... he always implores the Senators... to pray for wisdom.

we find ourselves closer than we have ever been to losing the vital services that the Postal Service offers to all of us.

How do we get a better result for less money in literally everything that we do?

the situation at the Postal Service is dire. It is not hopeless.

The Postal Service deserves a great deal of credit for staving off the liquidity problems, but that is going to end within a year.

I am willing to make tough choices to make him successful and us successful in accomplishing that.

What I think the Board of Governors wants to do is to pay down its obligation to the Treasury, some of it at least.

The Postal Service is unique in this country. Nobody else goes to every mailbox, virtually every door, business and residential, in this country 5 or 6 days a week.

Our bill attempts to permanently address the Postal Service's longstanding health and pension issues and right-size its processing and delivery network.