05/09/2016
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"we have proven ourselves as an institution--Congress, political leadership, President--incapable of dealing with this problem of stopping the indebtedness."
"I guess I will take it as kind of a left-handed compliment that Congress is not-- what did you say?-- 'a performance wasteland.'"
"$12 trillion of debt today, commitments that are in law already that will add $9 trillion to that in the next 10 years, $21 trillion. It is, as we say, unsustainable."
"I want to make sure every member--you know, one thing I have learned as a new member, if you make sure everybody gets involved, they actually come back."