There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'
If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.
It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.
I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.
Most Americans want health insurance.
If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.
Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.
Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.
Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.
I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues.
There are lots of ways to work together.
