For whatever other reasons, from a purely economic consideration, if you choose to use a less efficient source of energy, you have less prosperity, therefore, less growth and fewer jobs.

This is the most pro-growth thing we can do is to fundamentally reform our Tax Code.

Medicare is the real driver of the entire health-care picture.

I just want to underscore, I think this is a problem with the scorekeeping methodology.

Some encourage economic growth more than others?

My own view from the beginning has been that the most constructive thing we can do to maximize economic growth is major reform of both the corporate and the individual tax codes.

I don't think anybody ought to get first-dollar coverage, because I think we ought to make sure that people have skin in the game.

And at the end of the day, you know, nobody likes this, but without talking about death panels and that kind of crazy stuff, you are going to have to do something about the end-of-life scenario.

If we tolerate or aggravate the current deficit problem with the promise that we will work it all out in the future, that is a very, very dangerous direction to head in.

My preference would be that we move in the direction of a more territorial system.

For every dollar that was dedicated to lowering rates, there was a dollar dedicated to deficit.

I would argue that it is already happening.