"I assert that our Tax Code has been corrupted by special interests, that powerful interests rich enough to pay for lobbyists and fund Super PACs have looted our tax system to make themselves even richer."
"Thank you for talking."
"These cliffs, I think, are really hard for people that get caught by surprise by them, and they are also, it seems to me, pretty terrible just public policy."
"There is no mandate."
"Our national debt is not only the result of those two economic shocks, of course. It is also the result of repeated rounds of Republican tax cuts that primarily benefited giant corporations and very, ..."
"Your mention of can we agree to a debt to GDP level provokes me to remember my work with Chairman Enzi to find a safe debt to GDP level, a glide slope to get there, and guardrails to assure that we're..."
"the growth in healthcare spending has been one of the primary drivers on the spending side."
"Helping the wealthy avoid taxes is such an infatuation that House Republicans even brought the United States to the brink of default trying to prevent the IRS from cracking down on wealthy tax cheats."
"CBO's long-term budget projections back in 2012 were the last time that CBO showed debt declining as a share of GDP."
"Democrats have always pledged to protect and preserve Social Security and Medicare."
"Do we really want to leave Ukraine high and dry to the tender mercies of the pediatric hospital bombing monster Putin? I kind of doubt it."