Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"The theory is true, but the politics around it make it hard to adhere to the discipline."

"I happen to believe that very, very significant savings can be achieved that way."

"If my roof has a hole in it and the rain comes in, the sooner I fix that, the less my family's long-term cost of that repair."

"I could not agree with you more, and I think that we have a window of time... The fiscal knives do not have to come out in the kind of emergency ways that you are suggesting they will have to if we do..."