David Walker: “We have profiles in cowardice rather than profiles in courage.”

If the overhead was 25 percent lower in the Pentagon, we'd be 50 percent more productive.

the base of the Republican Party will not support any type of tax increases -- even if it's eliminating tax expenditures where there can be a bipartisan agreement.

I can come up with $2 trillion to $3 trillion worth of deficit reduction without any tax increases, OK?

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.