David Walker: “Yes, I think it is. I think we have to recognize reality.”

I think frankly what the president ought to think about doing with regard to the Affordable Care Act is that he ought to use executive powers to not enforce the penalties associated with the individual mandate for a year.

This is not a collective bargaining problem. I mean, people ought to have the right to bargain, and we're not proposing to touch that at all.

A hundred years ago the Federal Government was 2 percent of GDP. Now it's 23 percent.

I think the American -- we need to have a discussion with the American people about how much universal health care is appropriate, affordable and sustainable.