Kent Conrad: “I believe strongly, it is critically important that we run deficits and add the debt in the short term.”

It was incredibly important that we not only made Social Security solvent, but we lifted the bottom 20 percent dramatically.

You know, we did have discussions. One of the things on this commission, because of its makeup and the diversity of views on this commission, and the extraordinary difficulty of coming together on Social Security, which we thought was the…

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

Forty-six percent of the American people would have a hard time coming up with $400 for an emergency car repair.