Lamar Alexander actually said...

"We do not want to just give the impression to cities and counties and States around the country there is big grab bag of money here for any project that you can compete for."

"I hope we can continue that conversation because that idea, the idea of a 2-year budget, has bipartisan roots."

"Would you think in this time of what I think is overspending, with an alarming deficit, it would be a good idea to not have new entitlement spending?"

"What happened between 1992 and 2002? Did it pretty well dry up the practice of incentive compensation?"