A QUOTE TO LIVE BY

The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform will be chaired by Alan

K. Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming, and Erksine Bowles, the

former chief of staff to President Clinton who brokered a 1997 balanced-budget

agreement with Congress. "There isn't a single sitting member of Congress—not one

—that doesn't know exactly where we're headed," Simpson tells The New York Times.

"And to use the politics of fear and division and hate on each

other—we are at a point right now where it doesn't make a

damn whether you're a Democrat or a

Republican if you've forgotten you're an American."