Kent Conrad: “I believe the President's budget gets it about right.”

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.

If you had to reduce it to a word, I would reduce it to 'globalization.'

I thought he was an outstanding Committee Chairman, and my former intern has succeeded him in his Congressional seat.

I would just say our Retirement Security Plans and our Retirement Security Clearinghouses are responding to the underlying dynamic that Professor Mead has done such a good job in describing.