Senator Jim DeMint recently said, "I've been here long enough to know that this is about as close as it gets to getting something done."
Representative Paul Ryan: "We're planning on moving this bill... It's a jump-start bill because it's a consensus bill"
Tom Delay: "There is plenty of time to do everything we want to do."
President Bush: "My job is to confront problems, not pass them on to future presidents. And I'm going to continue to confront that Social Security problem."
Scott McClellan: "The president is fully committed to the priorities he has outlined in his agenda." "We know it's headed on a course toward bankruptcy and it needs to be fixed, and the sooner we do it, the better and the less expensive."
