"My praise for Ketanji's intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal."
"The health care law fails to address the cost problem, and instead adds new liabilities to an already bankrupt future."
"We do not want to have the rapid changes that Europe did."
"You are saying that the higher marginal tax rates go, the less output in economic growth we get."
"I think it is very constructive that we have what we call an alternative fiscal scenario because that sort of more reflects current policies."
"Our entitlement programs--in particular government spending on health care--are the core drivers of the debt."
"Growing debt would increase the probability of a sudden fiscal crisis, during which investors would lose confidence in the government's ability to manage its budget, and the government would thereby l..."
"So what that means is, in the 2030s, we do not think we can measure the economy going forward because the debt burdens."
"I think the 10 year note went down as much as 1.5."
"It is once again the fiction that ah, we didn't need the government and this could have been a privately run bankruptcy."
"We have to ask ourselves whether the status quo--an expensive and unaffordable status quo--is the best way to address the problems that the Congress has set for itself to solve."