"I would suggest--I am glad that Senator Wyden is here--the way to do that is treat all corporate income as pass-through income."
"I do not think the Federal Government is particularly good at predicting what this is going to be."
"I would like to scrap the entire thing, rebuild the tax system on pretty basic principles: raise the revenue you need, do no economic harm."
"Do any of you know of a tax increase that is going to promote economic growth or that will make us more competitive globally? Does it one exist?"
"I have a great deal of faith in individuals, in local governments, State governments, local teachers, school administrators."
"The way we start controlling health care costs is we reconnect the consumer of the product with the payment of the product."
"For anybody to say that Social Security is solvent to the year 2035 is just--I just think that is a false statement."
"I think we all share the same goal here. We all want a prosperous America."
"The Social Security Trust Fund in total, on a consolidated basis, has no value to the Federal Government."
"We are spending more per pupil and we are getting terrible results."
"Government-run programs, government-funded programs run way too slow."