Jim Nussle

The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.