Time Magazine – August 8, 2011
Interview with Alan Simpson, 
Former US Senator (GOP) from Wyoming
 "You can't pay games."
On Medicare:
    “It doesn’t matter if you call it ‘Obamacare’ or ‘Elvis Presley Care’ or ‘I-don’t-care.’ It cannot sustain itself in its present form. You’ve got to do things that are very irritating. You’ve got to reduce providers’ and physicians’ compensation, start charging co-pays and affluence-testing beneficiaries. You’ve got to make hospitals keep one set of books, not three. Impossible.”
Would he run for office now:
    “Oh, hell, no.  Now it’s just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you si down and say, ‘What are you going to do for the country?’ you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.”