"I think you guys have done--with a horrible economic situation over the past couple of years--have done a pretty good job."
"a plan beats no plan."
"you guys have saved the auto industry."
"We passed that China currency bill last year with 380 votes, bipartisan support."
"I think it could be a major stimulus for the United States if we do it."
"The President has disappointed us by presenting us with another budget that spends too much, borrows too much and taxes too much."
"I wonder how long Americans are going to tolerate empty promises about their retirement security."
"There has been a lot of talk about the politics of taking on these challenges, and the conventional wisdom is that the politically safe thing to do, I suppose, is to do nothing."
"My plan does not reduce. It just slows the rate of growth. These benefits continue increasing year after year after year throughout the century."
"I will be offering an amendment on the floor in a while to implement what the administration called for, closing some of these tax benefits to the oil industry."
"What we should be doing is taking the newfound backbone and accelerating and strengthening them."