"the Federal Government is part of a public-private partnership"
"Congress' inability to make a budget fully with approved appropriations bills virtually every single year... hurts the world economy as well."
"I think that would be a great public service the Congressional Budget Office could provide to the United States Congress"
"I am so encouraged by the direction this Congress is taking from a bipartisan perspective to push forward, quite righteously, the Social Security Fairness Act to eliminate WEP and GPO."
"It is not only inefficient, it is awful, and it is inhumane."
"It is Congress that is not fulfilling its mission to Social Security beneficiaries."
"We are not moving forward, we are going backwards."
"You should be indignant about what Congress has done to this budget that really serves our people."
"This is what we need."
"You need $500 million more."
"The American economy is--we are 25 percent of the world's economy."
"America remains the world's richest, most dynamic, and productive economy."