"the one justification for keeping the debt ceiling... is that it is an effective extortion measure."
"it is not the rules that are broken, it is the Congress that is broken."
"the conclusion that we all reached was it wasn't the rules, it was the people."
"I teamed up with Congressman Jodey Arrington in the Bipartisan Policy Center to craft and introduce the Responsible Budgeting Act."
"the debt ceiling become a political cudgel rather than some sort of useful policy tool."
"having the debt ceiling gives--has already taken the power of the purse away from us."
"Given recent history, it is clear to me that the best way to do so is to eliminate the debt limit entirely."
"Congress has the authority to lift the debt ceiling to safeguard the full faith and credit of the United States and the responsibility to do so."
"America is one of the few countries in the world that has a debt limit and none of them go through the crises that we do."
"They know that they can't purchase as many goods today as what they could a year ago and it is because of inflation."
"Over the years, Democrats, Republicans, labor unions, business leaders, and economists have endorsed the notion that at the end of the day default should not be an option."