The age has to go up. It is an enormous part of how you fix cost.
This year alone, we will pay $295 billion in interest. This is more than we spend this year on seven Cabinet Departments...
I think it is a mistake also, though, to scare the markets and to talk of default and say default will occur if we do no...
I do not want to default, but I also think it is wrong for Congress to approve more borrowing without necessary reforms.
We are currently on an imprudent and unsustainable fiscal path.
If we began working on this with advanced notice, which, we should--we are big boys and girls--we ought to be able to ge...
I think also when we look at say, oh, we must push back against Iran, it is sort of like who pushed whom first?
I think it is important that we not forget that there is a religious intolerance on one side that I think really is alar...
It seems to me an even more important summit would be a summit between the Gulf States, including Saudi Arabia and Iran.
But I do say that we get fixated on Iran, and we forget about the danger of Wahhabism throughout the world.
This is not all Iran, and I am not a supporter of Iran and their government, but there are problems on both sides of thi...