We knew we were right.

The Obama administration has failed miserably in that regard. It has focused on consumption and fiscal stimulation that will give us 4-percent growth in 2011.

I believe this debt threat is an imminent threat to the Nation.

the budget problem that presents us with, instead of having several hundred billion dollars a year coming in from Social Security that we could send somewhere else, those days are over.

I believe that the deficit and debt reduction plan assembled by the President's Fiscal Commission on which I served got it about right.

we will focus on challenges that are facing the U.S. economic recovery

I do not think Congress, the House or the Senate, are going to be very interested in bailouts to States.

I supported extending the tax cuts. I supported extending all of them because I believed the economy was in such weak condition.

the Congress and the policymakers, we have to walk and chew gum at the same time.

I just want to make a correction.

I think that demonstrates that we can reach across the aisle to do things that are critically important for the country.