"We could figure out how to do this, but we are not having the discussion."
"Two-thirds of the Social Security shortfall can be wiped out by raising the age."
"If I were in charge, there would be a committee looking at Social Security and Medicare and saying, 'How do we come together?'"
"I appreciate you taking your time to come in, and thank you, Senator Peters, for being part of it."
"The age has to go up. It is an enormous part of how you fix cost."
"We need to untie our hands."
"We do not obey our own rules."
"The problem has been the people. The people do not obey their own rules, meaning Congress does not obey their own rules."
"Tough choices are required on the spending and revenue side of the budget."
"Everybody knows we have this exploding entitlement problem, and nobody is doing anything about it."
"If we began working on this with advanced notice, which, we should--we are big boys and girls--we ought to be able to get it done in time."