David Walker: “we can't just focus on today; we have to take steps to create a better tomorrow.”

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.

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.

No, there really isn't. We have to raise the debt ceiling because the fact is we don't know what the markets would do.

Anybody who signs a pledge on the right that says, I will never raise taxes, they're part of the problem. They're not part of the solution.