Kent Conrad: “One percent of $3 trillion, I think the Senator would acknowledge, is not $300 billion, it is $30 billion?”

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.

All the talk in the world doesn't matter if you don't actually get something done in the real world.

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.

The one thing I know for sure is that what is happening now is not working.