The American people expect fact-based budgeting that produces more energy, not locking it up.
We are hurdling toward it. That is one thing we know with certainty.
I do believe we can move toward more of a consumption base by moving toward what you might call the traditional flat tax.
we do not just have a spending problem, although we do have a spending problem, we also have a revenue problem.
We are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar that we spend.
Let's get real. Yes, we have to do spending and yes, we have to do revenue.
I do not see any way around, and the question is timing.
Spending as a share of our national income is the highest it has been in 60 years.
I think it has been inappropriate for the administration to raise the specter of a default on our debt.
All of us--all of us--have to be in on the solution.
I do not understand why a measure of success is comparing one third grade to another third grade.