http://hotair.com/archives/2010/12/02/game-over-five-members-of-deficit-commission-will-vote-no-on-final-plan/
"The threat isn't coming in four or five years, it's coming in one or two."
On the problem:
"The real disease is we have abandoned the concepts of our founders. We've created reliance, instead of depending on self-reliance. We've created government programs that are unaffordable. We've abandoned limited government. We've abandoned the enumerated powers. Now we're in trouble. And nobody is looking at what the real problem is. The real problem is us. ...
"The average age of the world's republics is 200 years. They all fail because eventually the populous learns they can vote something from the public treasury. They all fail over fiscal issues. They are not conquered from without before they rot from win. We are rotting as we sit here and speak today."
"I think we ought to be cheating history. History says we're not going to make it. And the way we cheat history is for all of us to give up something. Everybody at this table give up something. And then, the way forward for America is for everybody to start sacrificing so we create a future that honors the tremendous sacrifice that came before us."
"Paul's Road Map is a way to solve that problem. Nobody--nobody has come forward with another solution. Because nobody
Nobody--nobody