"I want to congratulate President Obama for the last couple of weeks of leadership that he has shown on nuclear energy."
"I do have faith in the Government's commitment."
"I am a big backer of Pell Grants."
"Isn't this an example of just saying I see the problem, the boat has a hole in it, and so what I propose to do is just put some more holes in the boat?"
"We may do better step by step to go in the right direction."
"If I went in to borrow money to buy a house and I told the banker, look, in 10 years, my interest payment is going to be 15 percent of my income, but I am going to put that on another account, I don't..."
"I happen to think entitlement spending is the big gorilla that we need to work on."
"I had suggested that we just declare a stock dividend and give the stock back to everybody who paid taxes last April 15th."
"But the question is what you do with your inheritance."
"There is the stimulus bill, the auto bailout, the appropriations bills, the spending for health care, and the spending for the jobs bill."
"President Obama's budget director, before he was budget director, warned that the lack of State support for public higher education is damaging it."