Jack Reed actually said...

"If we default next week, even technically, your view, I believe, is that that will make our ability to do almost everything, including deal with the long-term entitlement problem, much more difficult."

"The impact on Main Street, I mean, one of the issue with prioritization Senator Brown mentioned was we are not prioritizing between paying Federal debt and trivial expenses of the Government."

"If the USS United States goes down, we all go down together, Democrats and Republicans."

"I think the whole panel concurred that because of much more effective underwriting, the multifamily programs were credible, durable, and, in fact, contributed significantly..."