Kent Conrad: “I was extremely encouraged by the President's Inaugural Address yesterday and by his comments obviously prior to that.”

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

It takes guts to do that, and Chairman Arrington, you have certainly led the charge on having a commission.

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.