I would give up my life for the country. In order to pull this thing off, we have to do it together, okay? We cannot do it with one side fighting the other side with irreconcilable differences. The amount of debt that we're in, it represents a challenge, but it is not inevitable.

What is needed is, first of all, a strong middle to bring the country together, and then there needs to be a good engineering exercise that's going to produce, but has to be bipartisan. A great reformation, much like the Manhattan Project, in which those bipartisan people get together and properly engineer important changes that need to be made.

They have to be structural. I think my best role is to pass along whatever helpful thoughts I have, and then it's up to the people.