Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

We shouldn't just live for today we should prepare for tomorrow.

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation it was designed for deficit reduction.