Erskine Bowles: “You attract more bees with honey.”

Failure to reach our target will lock us into mandatory indiscriminate cuts and will limit our options in the future.

What most folks saw was Washington at its worst: too much politics and very little in the way of responsible decision making.

A balanced, long-term approach to deficit reduction that keeps everything on the table is the only way that we are going to be able to address the deficit.

The longer that we kick the can down the road, the worse the situation is going to get.