"Those who were here first should not have second-class health care or second-class housing or second-class educations."
"We have to focus like a laser on trying to put people to work and resurrect the economy."
"What Senator Gregg and I did is, in effect, go to American business and say, how much would you have to reduce these American rates in order to junk a lot of the stuff that you have overseas?"
"Senator Gregg and I are saying, no. Why not go with a model we know worked when Democrats and Republicans get together."
"Why would one think that the tax policies that produced anemic job growth and declining real income for the middle class... would create substantially more jobs and substantially more income in the po..."
"When Ronald Reagan and Democrats worked together, 16 million new jobs were created. There was a 17.6 percent expansion in payrolls."
"the tax debate misses the point because both of those approaches, George W. Bush and now what has been offered by President Obama, in my view, involve tinkering with a badly flawed, discredited tax sy..."
"By comparison, from 2001 to 2008, when there was just partisanship in the tax area, three million jobs were created."
"the classification process, which is supposed to protect national security, really ends up being designed to protect political security."
"I intend to work very closely with Chairman Bingaman and Senator Udall."
"I think there ought to be some ground rules on this stuff, some ground rules that have real teeth."