Pat Ryan actually said...

"a plan beats no plan."

"I think you guys have done--with a horrible economic situation over the past couple of years--have done a pretty good job."

"I think this budget, as much as I don't like a lot of it, does make the kind of investments that we need to be competitive."

"If you want to talk about budgets, why don't you look at our 2009 budget, which was the last budget we as a conference actually did, instead of an individual piece of legislation that I introduced?"