"Nobody in this Congress should be playing political games when it comes to the full faith and credit of the United States."
"I firmly believe that a course correction here in Washington is sorely needed to help get us back on the right track."
"Put additional investments in infrastructure, like you mentioned, you know, $50 billion, $100 billion in the next year or two for infrastructure that needs to get done anyway in education, in job retr..."
"So I think we need additional fiscal stimulus to drive unemployment down, we shouldn't be so worried about inflation in places outside of our country so much, and I think we've got to worry about jobs..."
"I think we are all in agreement that the long-term demographics and health care costs, and that is what we tried to deal with the Health Care Reform Bill, which CBO says will save us a $1 trillion in ..."
"I don't know why those rules can't apply to government as well."
"I don't think we can go blindly and extend all the tax cuts. I think we need to think about whether that is the right policy and if so, how we would offset those costs."
"You have to do everything to get there."
"There is no question that our fiscal future is tied to health care."
"How about let's go into debt."
"We didn't get to this point because the Federal Government was being starved by American taxpayers; we are here because Washington spends too much."