If you can't, frankly, you're living in the past, |
It is our mission in this city to ship power, money and influence back to the people, ... The more money we have in our pockets, the more power we have. |
No one should be confused that in fact the Republican party continues to stand for lower taxes for all Americans, |
Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered and frankly this bill really is a hog, it is way over the top. We believe there really is too much spending, we believe this bill is in fact an abomination, |
Republicans have gotten the sense that they're going to get elected by passing out money to people. |
The issues of Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security -- what are we doing to convince the American people that we're prepared to deal with those tough issues? |
The new estimate from the Congressional Budget Office shows that our efforts to balance the budget and return power, money and influence to people in neighborhoods and communities are working. This is great news for the American people, |
The president has to work with us, we're willing to work with him, and this is an opportunity for him to show real leadership. I hope they don't blow this chance. |
The president's finally caught up to us on that, ... We want to save every dime for Social Security -- we're going to need it to create individual retirement accounts and keep Social Security from melting down. So that's a good proposal. |
The U.S. can and should remain strongly engaged internationally, because regional instability will not solve itself. But we must choose our tools very carefully, for the stakes do not allow failure. Power is a finite quantity; if we expend it all over the world, we diminish ourselves. |
there's no question about it, we can set aside a very large amount -- the most in modern history -- to save Social Security, and we can also give the American people a tax cut. |
This is a good budget that will allow us to have the money we need to fix social Security for over three generations, |
To add more people to a system that is running out of money doesn't make any sense, ... Meet the Press. |
To think that if the federal government will just pass three more laws and somehow that's going to give us more peace and more hope for our young people is such an unrealistic view. It's not the answer. |
We are going to cut taxes by the greatest amount taxes have been cut in modern American history, |