We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.

A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. ... We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.

There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.