Kent Conrad: “The President has yet to look the American people in the eye and explain the basic fact that we have run out of money.”

If you are really going to relieve me of the administrative burden, if you are going to really relieve me of the liability, if you are going to really relieve me of the cost other than the payroll transfer.

The new improvised system was not adequate.

If we are going to make this whole system solvent, it is going to take everybody to give a little bit.

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