This is not going to be solved with one step. There are going to have to be many significant steps taken for us to be rebuilding for recovery.

I believe the models that we are using now cannot capture the difference in the threat that we face.

The outrage of people cannot be dismissed.

We would rather set up a process to get to that policy, which requires decisions and then requires action that is the best approach.

I hope people are open to understanding that, you know, everybody has their own view, but to accomplish big things takes compromise around here.

There is a disconnect...between what we are doing as a country here in terms of our fiscal policy and our monetary policy and how it affects real people's lives.

You cannot grow the Government at that rate and catch your tail.

Why don't you go back to the Bush years when revenues were up to 18.9 percent of GDP?

I am very, very concerned about some of these things that I hear about and read in the newspaper might be in this package.

my own view is it will probably be in that 4 percent of GDP range as they do their own rescoring of all of this.

I appreciate the exceptional work that Senator Wyden has done on health care reform.

A handful of people created, through excessive greed and dishonestly creating all of these esoteric financial tools which nobody understands.