Roy Blunt actually said...

"So once again, we are not prioritizing. We are saying this is taking us by surprise."

"But the idea that we need to cut spending, but it needs to be a balanced approach seems to me to fly in the face of the idea that nobody has any idea how to reach this goal even if one-half of it is r..."

"We keep talking about the fact that we can take some balanced approach between spending cuts and revenues."

"I hope one thing surely we're getting out of this is that there are still terrorists in the world and they still want to do us harm."