Kent Conrad Quotations

The request for an additional $18 billion for 2002 for defense would just make this situation worse, and I told the secretary of defense I believe they have an affirmative obligation to come up with a way of paying for this,

There needs to be recognition by the administration that his budget is not going to get through the Senate because his priorities are not the priorities of the country.

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!

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

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

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

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

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

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.