David Walker: “We ought to have work requirements. There is no question about it.”

I think we can get there without going to a parliamentary system, but I do think that we need political reforms as well as policy reforms.

There is only one kind of mandate that occurred in the election in November, because the public returned the Republicans to the House, the Democrats to the Senate, and President Obama to the White House.

Believe it or not, I am 65 years old. Congress has passed timely budget and appropriation bills four times in 65 years. That is an F minus.

You can't spend a lot more money than you take in and charge it to the credit card and not expect to have a day of reckoning.