Jim Nussle

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

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

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 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.

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