"Every year, the citizens of Illinois write a check for approximately $40 billion to States largely in the Sun Belt and rural areas."
"The massive Medicaid cuts that the Republican House, passed and the Republican Senate has right now under their jurisdiction, will absolutely devastate retirees."
"I think one of the reasons that we have a lot of--both parties talking past each other in a lot of these things and often coming up with imaginary scenarios of what might have happen."
"But I think when I look at the debate over monetary policy, the big problem is that we are not looking enough at the distributional consequences of this."
"Now, there can be no doubt that taking $2.4 trillion from some people and giving it to other people is a political act."
"As a political act, it should be openly and clearly discussed with the elected Representatives of the People who have the constitutional responsibility for the nature of money."
"Grown-up substantive discussions with the Congress about which theories the Fed is supplying, what the alternatives are, who the winners and losers may be, and what the implications for political econ..."
"I think it's important that we look this dragon in the eye and make sure that all Members of Congress who claim that they support science speak up at times when science funding is at this kind of thre..."
"I'm really excited to just think about what the James Webb Space Telescope is going to mean."
"I think that's fundamental to--you know, we have to plan how to convince the public to write a great big check to do this."
"There are a number of very interesting lessons that the world, as well as our country, I think should learn from this."
"I think there is a bigger concern within Europe, especially after the U.K. vote to leave the European Union, that if Greece were to leave, it is showing that the continental system, the political syst..."