"I want to commend the Chairman. The Aging Committee, my sense is, we want to be your partners."
"I wish I could stay for another two or three hours."
"We need to treat every child like a gold nugget. Polish them up and get maximum value out of them."
"We do not want to increase lifespan at all costs. We do not want to live to be 130 and feel like we are 130."
"The public now sees what the government does and to a certain extent they're increasingly understanding that the Affordable Care Act is going to make to sure that every poor child in America has healt..."
"I would ask, Mr. Chairman, that I want to add my concern that this shutdown on top of the sequester is harming American science and our innovation economy very badly."
"A U.S. default is the economic equivalent of a nuclear bomb."
"It is unacceptable for Congress to ever voluntarily default on the debt and that continual short-term extensions of the debt limit increase unnecessary market uncertainty."
"We cannot do this every year, every 2 years, every 6 weeks since what I hear you saying is the very threat is costing us money."
"We have got to pay them."
"Accountability means voting to close tax loopholes so that wealthy individuals and big corporations are going to pay a fair share here."