How in the world could any statistics mean anything when you have got the situation you are talking about?

Is that current model something that could be changed? Let's say you were to, a State were to basically say hey, we are going to start over again. We are going to do a different approach. Is that the kind of thing a State could really be…

If you really want to give bonuses to teachers, why don't you let the parents of the students have a say in how their performance would be? Because I will tell you, if you think back about all of your teachers that you have had, I can't…

In other words, what you're saying is that what Republicans spent in 1 year, the Democrats are averaging in 1 month, so they're 12 times faster spending money.

Well, there were quite a number of them. Some of them were small. But you add the whole thing together, you're talking about trillions of dollars in tax increases.

So, gentleman, just taking a look at some notes I had, this would be about from 1996 to the year 2007, and you total that up at about $1.2 trillion. So that's 12 years of Republican deficit spending, more or less.

There is a difference between jobs and jobs, is what you are saying. Some of these things are very high-tech kinds of jobs. They require building companies over a good number of years, building capabilities, putting that team together, and…

You've really answered the question. We are on some very, very shaky ground economically, and you're saying we're already there. The thing that is frightening is--and this is something that just kind of amazes me--we got punished by voters…

If you want to talk about the fiscal concern that we need to be watching in our country, it comes from Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. This is the budget that is being proposed. This is how much money we have in terms of receipts…

You know, it was interesting. When we were looking at that No Child Left Behind, it was my first kind of introduction to insider ball in Washington, DC, and the Department of Education. And there were all of these programs in the…

You are telling me that the ACORN program, the one where we've got people going to jail for voter fraud and all other kinds of strange and weird behavior, registering illegals, registering people that don't exist, turning them out to vote…

If it's all right, if you take a look at what's happened, over the last 50 years, this government here has just grown like Topsy. For a while, you and I were in the majority. We passed some conservative bills, and we did the best we could…