Kent Conrad: “The eyes of the Nation were on North Dakota and Minnesota at those moments, and the people of this country were…”

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.

All the talk in the world doesn't matter if you don't actually get something done in the real world.

I wish I could look you in the eye and say, you know, if we just had the will, we could reverse this, and we could go back to a time when defined benefit plans were on the increase. I do not think that is in the cards.

I do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.