William A. Galston

A completed budget is expected to do much more than set spending levels for discretionary programs...The 2011 BCA kept the government open, but it didn't constitute a full budget.

Bill Clinton was born into a poor, white family in a small town...There's nothing in Obama's background that has given him anything like the visceral understanding of that slice of America that Bill Clinton has in his bones, just because he grew up with it.

He [President Obama] understands that what he was doing four years ago was more pertinent to the challenges of 2008... Like any successful politician, he has made some adjustments.

It's not just in the numbers [of where each side would spend, cut or tax]. It's also in the underlying theories of how the world works and what would cure the problems that ail us...If the voters don't see that now, I think by the end of this election they will.