We face a deficit crisis and we must act to be prudent stewards of our budget for generations yet born.

This should not and will not come at the expense of our Nation's heroes and the sacrifices they made.

I believe today's hearing is a sham.

A republic once equally poised must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty.

I think this is a shameful exercise, and I am very sad you have chosen to participate and be used the way you are being used.

What is the compelling State interest in providing free contraception? It is available to 98 percent of the people in this country.

Countries around the world advance by emancipating civil society, not by suppressing it.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

We do not view this situation as a legal matter involving rule of law, nor do 29 Egyptian organizations who issued a statement yesterday in Cairo.

This is a panel designed... to embarrass the President of the United States.

Should your parishioners... have First Amendment rights of conscience?

I have heard the Constitution being attacked, being denigrated.

I don't normally quote from Joseph Stalin, but today he said something appropriate about liberty. He said, "America is like a healthy body, and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, its spiritual life. If we can…

I think that is shameful.

Somebody within the fold of the Egyptian Government... decided consciously to pick a fight with the United States.

The unethical conspiring against Egyptian civil society is in no way a national objective or in the national interest.

somebody made a decision consciously to do this. This was not an accident. They didn't stumble into it.

President Obama has made reducing reliance on contractors and rebalancing the workforce a major management initiative of his Administration.