you have to have everything on the table. Spending, revenue, and every part of Federal spending has to be dealt with.
there is nobody that could have participated in this process that did not conclude this tax system that we have is just completely out of da...
The President has to lead. The President has to say, 'This is what I would do to fix this problem.'
I believe that we are already in the early stages of a fiscal train wreck.
I am serious about cutting spending and I voted to do it on the Commission.
I do not see any way around, and the question is timing.
I give him credit for stabilizing the debt, but it is stabilized at a level that is too high.
The only thing worse than being for this is being against it.
I believe history will condemn us all if we do not do substantially more for the decade than is in this budget.
I do not think Congress, the House or the Senate, are going to be very interested in bailouts to States.
we did get 11 of 18 to agree--five Democrats, five Republicans, one Independent. And we reduced the debt $4 trillion over the next 10 years.