Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"the sequester has indeed been stupid, painful, and damaging."

"You need to do tax reform."

"I think we have given and given and given and given again and find it hard to understand some of the things that the Republicans will not put on the table."

"How do you make this-- how do you try to put a price into this cloud of nonsense that is now the pricing system in health care?"