I Said We Are Going To Balance

You Just Have To Stand And Grit Your Teeth And Know Your Poll Numbers Are Going To Go Down - And Mine Have - But You Gotta Grit Through It Because The Alternative Is Unacceptable.

I Know We Can Fix Our Problems. When There Are People In The Room Who Care More About Doing The Job They Were Elected To Do Than They Worry About Winning Reelection, It Is Possible To Work Together, Achieve Principal Compromise, And Get Results For The People Who Give Us These Jobs In The First Place.

I Was 32 Years Old, And I've Changed My Mind. And The Biggest Reason That I Changed My Mind Was My Seven Years As A Federal Prosecutor. What I Learned In Those Seven Years Was That We Were Spending Too Much Time Talking About Gun Laws Against Law- Abiding Citizens And Not Nearly Enough Time Talking About Enforcing The Gun Laws Strongly Against Criminals.

You Can't Lay Back And Wait For Somebody Else To Do It. And I Think If The President's Made A Mistake Here, It's This Laid-back Kind Of Approach Where He's Waiting For Someone Else To Solve The Problem.

I Had To Make These Decisions After 9/11, Make A Decision About How To Proceed Forward With An Investigation Or How To Pull Back, Whether You Use Certain Actionable Intelligence Or Whether Not To. And Yet They Continue To Debate About This Bill And In The Subcommittee And What - Nobody In America Cares About That.