Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.
We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.
Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.
We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.
That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.
If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.
If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.
If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.