If we are not the best educated people in the world, we cannot long expect to be the most powerful country in the world.
the right answer is not zero with respect to the housing crisis and the financial sector.
If you do not deal with the long-term imbalances, our country is going to look like a Banana Republic.
Absent the first TARP, the system would have collapsed.
we have got to be able to do better than this and we very much need your help and the help of your associates to point the way
They have been very focused on the long-term issues that confront the country with the budget and the complete unsustainability of our curre...
So what I would like to do is get rid of the Medicaid program.
I have come to the conclusion--this is critically important--that is that right now the reimbursement system is based on procedures.
Better outcomes, less cost.
we are not even close. I do not think on the last analysis we are in the top 20 in health care outcomes.
let's not let humility prevent us from acting, because the course we are on is completely and utterly unsustainable.