106 Quotes by Kent Conrad

Those are the very things I've urged the administration to do for some time.

to give us their ideas and what they would recommend we do.

What you've got here is the most severe winter on record, followed by the most violent winter storm in 50 years. At the same time you're facing the greatest flood threat in 150 years.

This nation is about to be hit with a tidal wave of new retirees. In just six years, the baby boomers will begin to retire. The demands on Social Security and Medicare will be dramatically increased, ... This is no time to divert Social Security and Medicare funds to other purposes.

You don't need some whole new unfettered access to individual tax returns of people or of companies in order to figure out how the IRS is spending its money,

Who would have thought that when we began this week, we would have ended in this way?

The only thing wrong with that statement is, it's not true, ... Of course people's privacy would have been jeopardized under such a provision.

There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative.

While I agree that all emergency personnel should be highly trained, this is simply beyond the scope of what we can do in rural communities.