You are exploding the size of health care spending on top of health care spending which already exceeds any other industrialized country in the world by about 5 percent of GDP.

I want to thank you for that as well, because this budget really does reflect being responsible about how we get where we want to go to save dollars.

I remember when our previous Vice President said that deficits don't matter, and, in fact, we all know that they do.

If you are at 23 percent of GDP for spending, and you only get your revenues up to 18.2 percent of GDP, you have got a structural deficit of 5 percent of GDP.

You cannot claim that you are being disciplined if you leave off the table the most significant item that has to be addressed.

The outrage of people cannot be dismissed.

On an overall basis, I see something quite different, and I think CBO will also conclude something quite different.

I certainly salute his transparency, putting on the table things we know are going to be expenditures.

I am very concerned about the second 5 years.

it would be an utterly empty exercise around here not to get the votes to actually pass things.

the budget as is, in my judgment, just as it has been written, probably can't pass here.