Kent Conrad: “He said he is willing to protect the Social Security trust fund but he is not willing to protect the Medicare trust…”

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…

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

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

I would say personally I would not go to a company advising me on wealth management that did not have it because I think whoever is advising me ought to have as their highest responsibility to be giving me advice that is in my interest.