Kent Conrad

Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.

— Kent Conrad

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

— Kent Conrad

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

— Kent Conrad

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

— Kent Conrad

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

— Kent Conrad

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

— Kent Conrad

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

— Kent Conrad

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

— Kent Conrad

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes…

— Kent Conrad

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for…

— Kent Conrad

Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

— Kent Conrad

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more…

— Kent Conrad

The American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget.

— Kent Conrad

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the…

— Kent Conrad

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of…

— Kent Conrad

When you're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar that you spend, that can't continue much longer. I think everybody really does understand…

— Kent Conrad

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve…

— Kent Conrad

One reason the Founding Fathers thought that states should have two senators was so that smaller states wouldn't get run over and…

— Kent Conrad

There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural…

— Kent Conrad

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of…

— Kent Conrad

Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state…

— Kent Conrad

It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of…

— Kent Conrad

I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain…

— Kent Conrad

Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not…

— Kent Conrad