106 Quotes by Kent Conrad

It is unacceptable to give this industry special protection -- protection that has never been granted any other industry in our history.

It's the combination of massive tax cuts combined with massive spending on Iraq and Katrina when we already weren't able to pay our bills,

It just jumps out at you that this notion hasn't worked out in the real world. And if it did work out, maybe we should eliminate all the taxes and balance the budget.

It's almost as if words have lost their meaning,

You think of what could be done here, ... Any agent of the chairman of the Appropriations Committee -- and they could designate anybody as an agent -- could go into IRS facilities anywhere in the country and get your tax returns.

It's clear to me that the majority of people I represent and the majority of the American people support his nomination.

It will make tax controversies more expensive, more intrusive and more inconvenient for taxpayers.

The Congressional Budget Office tells us by 2052, Social Security could meet only 78 percent of its obligations. Medicare is in even worse shape. The shortfall in Medicare is eight times the deficit in Social Security. But the president has no plan to deal with that. The truth is, we need to confront all these challenges sooner rather than later.

If people saw how big the deficit really is, they'd feel more of a need to do something about it.