you are creating a situation which is probably untenable for our children because of the size of that debt

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 do not want to be part of any papering over or slipping by or not facing up to... a fundamental threat to the economic security of the country.

Wouldn't it be better to cut that so-called stimulus bill in half?

We have got a big problem, maybe $2 trillion or more with bad assets.

I have now voted twice for the TARP money because I thought President Bush needed it and I thought President Obama needed it.

I am still stunned that the President would ask us to spend $1 trillion.

let's not let humility prevent us from acting, because the course we are on is completely and utterly unsustainable.

we are not even close. I do not think on the last analysis we are in the top 20 in health care outcomes.

Better outcomes, less cost.

I have come to the conclusion--this is critically important--that is that right now the reimbursement system is based on procedures.