"It is not right. It is immoral, and I don't think anybody on this Committee, Democrat or Republican, thinks it is acceptable."
"We don't do our job and we don't do it very well."
"It is the mandatory spending and the entitlement programs that are really driving the debt."
"I come down very clearly on the side of raising revenues."
"82 percent opting for raising taxes on the rich and large corporations, seven percent cutting programs like Social Security and Medicare."
"I never thought we would agree on anything either, and Steve Womack mentioned this as well, if you go back and look at Greenspan, you are talking about 1981."
"the vast majority of that $33 trillion represents investments that the government has made in the American people."
"we can print all the money we want to serve the people whom we serve."
"I think you can make a pretty strong case that our debt is not holding us back at this point."
"I agree totally with our Ranking Member that what we ought to do if we come up with a fiscal answer is just ask the wealthiest Americans to pay a bit more, not to cut what we call an entitlement."
"We have one of the lowest tax burdens as a Federal Government than any developed country in the world."
"The $33 trillion that we are in debt is investments we made in the people, and the people rely on those investments."