08/17/2010
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"I have been hearing from my Republican friends for quite some time that it is a moral imperative for us to tackle our debt and our deficits in a serious way."
"Nobody has talked about increasing taxes now. Nobody has talked about increases -- increasing taxes next year. We're talking about potentially 2013 and the out years."
"I will put Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security on the table. All you need to do is to put tax expenditures on the table."
"They didn't send us to kick our problems down the road."