"I have consistently advocated for making the difficult decisions necessary not only to stop adding to the deficit, but to reverse the long-term fiscal trends that threaten our future economic prosperity."
"The budget process is broken. That is not good for the Congress, it is not good for the American people."
"You will not get a handle on the--meeting the needs both of national security and of domestic security without really fiscal confrontations unless we agree together."
"The reason Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan were able to do something which funded Social Security and made it stable for a lot of years was because they held hands."
"there has to be an agreement, or we are going to be in a position where we have gridlock again."
"My view would be, obviously, we control the House now. That is a difference in the political."
"I think the debt limit is a totally phony issue, absolutely dead flat phony. I think it is a political issue only."
"The bottom line is the majority of the Congress does not believe we can live within the sequester caps."
"It is over a trillion."
"Just as Federal agencies prudently provide support for State law enforcement in dealing with terrorism, Federal officials should give guidance and support in dealing with the election cybersecurity th..."
"We cannot leave States to their own devices in defending against the sophisticated cyber tactics of foreign governments."