"CBO also made the point that you simply cannot cache that level of spending with new taxes, at least under the income tax code."
"I think a reformed tax system with a lower rate that encourages investment in the United States and the creation of jobs in the United States would be good for American workers who would fill those jo..."
"Having record deficits and debt does have a negative impact on the economy."
"I do think that is what the American people want us to do."
"70 percent of the benefit of a lower rate on the corporate side is going to go to who? The workers."
"I am glad you said in your budget for the first time that you ought to not use these preference reductions or loophole closures for the budget deficit generally but for revenue-neutral tax reform."
"The notion that we can continue careening down this path of record debt... is really dangerous."
"We are in a deep fiscal hole. We have never experienced this as a country."
"This is about those workers, again, middle-class Americans who are trying to keep their job or get a job and have decent pay when their pay has gone down almost 4,500 bucks over the past several years..."
"I applaud some things in this budget. One is the fact that you are willing to take one small step and talk about the entitlement programs."
"We do have the highest rate among our trading partners, the highest in the industrialized world."