The President was wise to ask you to remain, and you were a true public servant.

I'm most gratified for your collaboration.

these fees would largely be passed through to consumers in the form of higher premiums for private coverage.

I believe that it is strongly desirable to also have credible non-government experts as part of the commission.

This violates something fundamental in the American character.

This is not a future that we want for our country.

We must put a credible process in place that would accomplish two key goals.

I respectfully suggest that we do not just need bipartisan solutions, we need nonpartisan solutions.

We must change course and change course fast.

Senator Bayh called it 'institutional insurrection.'

If they are simply, in spite of their best intentions, incapable of producing something that is in the national interest, then their parochial concerns must give way to doing what is in the best interest of this country.