Political Quotes

It seems to me the message there to the Afghans is, 'Look, we're here, and you can rely on us, but you have to do your part, too.'

It is a practice I refer to as hostage taking for unrelated reasons.

I will make one comment I do not expect you to respond to, but a skeptic might look at all this and say what was really at work here was a choice between an eventual orderly restructuring or a disorderly restructuring that could have been…

Our budget deficits and debt, which is accurately described, as you pointed out, as unsustainable.