I am concerned continually, Mr. Secretary, about the process taking too long.

This growth is real today.

Senator Conrad, the disparity between taxes on capital income and taxes on wages has grown larger and larger.

I salute the Secretary for saying, Hey, we have to take money out of the baseline plan.

We had to do more on the spending cuts side of the ledger, substantially more, but that we also had to do something on the revenue side if we are going to bell this cat in some kind of fair way.

We are hurdling toward it. That is one thing we know with certainty.

It is so important to the country that people of your quality and your character are willing to serve in these positions.

Just because you call something an investment does not make it so, certainly not a good investment.

I believe history will condemn us all if we do not do substantially more for the decade than is in this budget.

Mr. Buffett is often up here talking about tax reform and he has admitted that his taxes are too low.

I begged Chairman Greenspan not to take that position because it is, yes, it is psychological, but it matters around here.

It is horizontal inequality.