Lamar Alexander actually said...

"Governing is about setting priorities, and given our current fiscal constraints--especially on non-defense spending--we are going to have to make some tough decisions this year to make sure the highes..."

"The obstacles here are the United States Congress and the President of the United States. That is us."

"The real driver of our Federal debt is out-of-control mandatory spending on entitlement programs."

"Senator Feinstein and I have been pretty aggressive the last 2 or 3 years on that."