If you raise the taxes on these people, you might not have the jobs to provide, so the tax cuts are incredibly important.

This year we're debating about what taxes we're going to cut, not whether we're going to have any tax cuts.

Taxes are usually permanent, but tax cuts aren't.

There's a right way and a wrong way to cut taxes. The Republican tax cuts reward the few, our tax cuts invest in the future,

Tax cuts are fun to do. It's great to cut taxes, but it's not free. We've got to find a way to pay for them. The offsets that we have in this bill have already been used...I mean these offsets are as rare as a fat chicken running around Baghdad.

We should not be cutting taxes by borrowing, ... We do not have the capability of having both productive tax cuts and large expenditure increases, and presume that the deficit doesn't matter.