Erskine Bowles: “It is an enormous fiscal cancer, and going forward it will only get worse.”

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.

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

You attract more bees with honey.

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