"I fully support his efforts for preventive health care, for better pricing on prescription drugs, and for better use of medical technology and information technology."
"But unless there is a lead time on the other one, we may not avoid it."
"The worry I have is that if we do not get started rapidly on those strategies..."
"I think I am making a slightly different point, thinking longer term about the health care problem per se, and that as that $35 trillion tsunami hits us, we cannot cope with that from a fiscal point o..."
"It is an absolutely critical choice that our country faces."
"During the course of the Bush administration, the OMB has acquired the role and reputation of being the political fixer and hit man for the administration in agency regulatory proceedings."
"I applaud you for your intense focus on health care."
"This discussion matters a great deal not just to CBO economists and Senators on the Budget Committee."
"Not likely to happen now."
"I appreciate it. I have gone over my time, which I was doing happily and willingly because I was at the end of the line here."
"Every 2 years it can."