David Walker: “If we cannot be effective and efficient in what we're doing, we might as well go and play golf.”

Let's learn from history. Let's learn from others.

I would respectfully suggest that for the benefit of the United States and for the benefit of the American people the answer is yes.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is America. We can't have roads and bridges falling apart. We're better than that.

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.