To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.