It is horizontal inequality.

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

I hope history will record the same for your leadership.

We have seen some progress made--in fact, important progress made.

100 percent of GDP is too high.

I find the share of the pie that is devoted toward international development assistance to be a little bit too modest.

These highway funding initiatives, bridge funding initiatives, transit funding initiatives create jobs.

We are now in a situation where by putting $2 billion into advanced battery innovation and manufacturing--$2 billion in this country--we have unleashed billions of dollars.

Transit saves us highways and highway maintenance dollars and allows us to have a way that we can bring our communities together.

Right now we are in the midst of a growing fiscal crisis, and it is crucially important that we have an honest conversation about the challenges we face.

Spending as a share of our national income is the highest it has been in 60 years.