If Speaker Boehner can deliver his caucus, many of whom got elected not to compromise, if he can get them to vote for a compromise, I think that would be pretty remarkable.

The Ryan proposal is a setback for that, because it doesn't ask rich people to pay more after they've gotten now three tax cuts, each of which were nearly a trillion dollars.

We just did a poll, CNN, 85 percent of the American people say we ought to keep Medicare as it is or increase it.

I just don't think that Mr. Ryan or the Republicans have any credibility here.

The president of the United States always looks good when he can rise above the partisan fray or kind of resolve a partisan legal difference.

I thought we were heading for a government shutdown, almost for certain.

Yes, the Democrats did go first. I mean I just said they cut half a trillion from Medicare spending for which they were viciously attacked by the same Republicans who now want to do away with Medicare all together.

Medicare, Medicare, Medicare.

The Ryan budget doesn't even reduce the deficit in the first ten years, because it takes the savings from ending Medicare, get this, and gives it to tax cuts for the rich and for oil companies. It's unconscionable.

On December 14th, a Democratic controlled Senate Appropriations Committee bundled together all 11 appropriations bills... Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, said, and I'm quoting him here. He said, 'I am actively working to…

This is going to be his choice and he's going to sleep on it, I suppose, tonight. Either he takes the position of the Republican base... or he tries to find a bipartisan solution.

The Democrats say look, we've been arguing about abortion for 40 years in America, and the Hyde Amendment... already says that no federal funding can go to abortion and the Planned Parenthood money goes to non-abortion women's health.