But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today, a competitive marketplace - that's an idea that both sides embrace.