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

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.

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

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

American public policy is run on a myth.

I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.