"My Democratic colleagues want to tax more and spend more."
"I think Senator Sessions was in those hearings--and I was really struck and impressed by the bipartisan spirit of those hearings."
"It seems to me that repudiating our debt should be off the table."
"It seems to me that if history teaches anything, it is that those who carry the view that their end justifies extreme means are usually on the wrong side of history."
"If we cut out investments in them, we diminish our ability to lay down a foundation for long-term growth and prosperity."
"We should be investing more in our children, but sequestration right now is really taking us in the wrong direction."
"The House Republican Budget takes a very different approach. It does not simply accept sequestration; it makes it worse."
"Senator Kaine, when he was Governor, put a particular focus on pre-K."
"I think the testimony of the witnesses... sheds some light on one of the challenges... that we are having about trying to get the Senate budget into conference with the House."
"I learned that again and again in working on early childhood education issues in Virginia that just a little bit of early intervention for youngsters who have a developmental delay might mean years wh..."
"Your feeling today is that when she starts kindergarten she will be--"
"We ought to be committed to investing in our kids, and we ought to be committed to making sure that the investments are done the best possible way."