"Timing is everything. I think we have got a great opportunity."
"I want to thank my Ranking Member again for his leadership and the bipartisan sentiments."
"The people of this institution have to have the political will to do the necessary and now extremely painful things."
"It ain't working. So let's figure out how we can put those incentives in place."
"If you have a broken process, you will get bad outcomes most of the time."
"I want to prove to them that we can rise to their expectations and be responsible stewards."
"Fifty years, the results of the last 25 have been horrible, tragic really... if we don't change course... we are going to lose the country."
"A public debt is a public curse and the worst of its kind, he said, in a Republican form of government."
"$33 trillion begins to add up to a huge issue of a tremendous and immoral burden on future generations."
"So it is my strong belief that the Republican Party unilaterally will not be able to solve those issues, nor will the Democrat Party in this chamber, or in either chamber, solve the issues of Social S..."
"this Congress is going to have to muster the courage to fix this, and we can no longer hide behind the politics of everything"