Rick Allen actually said...

"Every time, I mean, when I get up in the morning I think about economic growth and creating jobs."

"So for us to sit here and say we are going to solve your problem is, it is troublesome because some people say it might take 400 million years to pay off that debt."

"We set, you know, in a similar meeting and, you know, it looks like we have made little or no progress and a lot of promises were made and not kept."

"I believe any proposal must have, you know, some structural reforms that in rather, you know, this--a band aid approach is just not going to fix a hemorrhaging problem."