"I think my question with respect to taxes is: How does what you are proposing this year on taxes fit into the prospect of tax reform next year?"
"I think we all understand the Tax Code is going to melt down next year."
"We have got a lot of heavy lifting left to do."
"The previous administration just pushed the Forest Service constantly, almost to the brink of bankruptcy."
"I think like health care, it goes right to the heart of how we are going to grow the economy."
"Democrats have fought--and, in my view, correctly so--to get everybody covered. It is the moral thing to do, and it is also the economic thing to do."
"There have been thousands and thousands of changes to the Code in recent years."
"I appreciate that. I think time is short. We are going to have to move very fast."
"Few developments have done more to harm public confidence in what is happening here in Washington than the news in the last few weeks of the financial institutions receiving Federal bailout funds payi..."
"Senator Snowe and I want to make sure this is bipartisan, and we look forward to those discussions today."
"You know, these tax rules look like they go mostly to the well-off and we are interested in trying to come up with a way that will give you working-class people a tax break and help us to hold down co..."