"when Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty, he got underway programs that have changed the lives of millions of Americans for the better."
"likely create the very death spirals that Congress designed the Act to avoid."
"the block-headed approach of giving States like Texas that are rejectionist States, that have rejected the Affordable Care Act..."
"they go down over time. TANF is down by 40 percent."
"they don't respond to economic trouble."
"These various repatriation proposals are certainly a loser for the United States Treasury."
"I want to begin by commending the National Association of Manufacturers, the Business Roundtable, the Alliance for Competitive Taxation, and the National Retail Federation for speaking out this week a..."
"the easiest thing for this Court to do, and I think the right thing, is to not ignore the other 900 pages of the law and focus solely on four words."
"It seems to me that the focus of this hearing and the focus of all of our work should be on how we can make this healthcare system work better and deliver services and insure more families instead of ..."
"If today we are asking you about how to make improvements to reach more people in our laws, that would be a reasonable thing, instead of the polemics that are going on here."
"I would hope to focus on how we can make it better and how we can make the implementation better."