We believe that the economy works best when the government establishes the rules of the road, adopting sensible standards, protecting the middle class, promoting competition, and preventing corporate abuses.

The heartbreaking unemployment hurting American families today stems from the Republican philosophy that Wall Street banks should be allowed to operate free from regulation.

This is the most anti-environment House in the history of Congress.

The priorities reflected in the Republican budget are wrong.

We can out-compete China. We can grow a stronger and better America, with jobs and opportunities for everyone who works hard and plays by the rules.

House Republicans seem to want to return to an America that pre-dated the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the Great Society.

letting States try things out on their own.

Here we have proposals to cut the safety net out of the poor, take away the guaranteed benefit for Medicare so that millionaires and billionaires can have tax cuts. That makes no sense to me.

Nobody in Canada said, take away their health care for all the people. They said let's do some things on a bipartisan basis that make sense.

The auto bailout was a success. Why are we fighting against what was a success?

I think we all understand that there is a need for government and a need for it to have reasonable regulations.

The rich and powerful want to stay rich and powerful. And the less government gets involved to make things fairer for everybody they will get richer and they will be more powerful.

And now that we have opened the campaign laws to unlimited and dead-end unreported contributions from corporations, I don't think that the lower income people are going to benefit.

This country was built on work ethic and character and liberty and all those qualities in past generations.

That is just not true. They are not even proposing anything like that.

Now what I am concerned about, Chairman Ryan, and others, is that there is too much of a faith that markets are going to correct themselves.

But regulations are needed in order to protect the public interest.

I don't know any other country on the face of the Earth that is more masochistic than we are when it comes to sucking or carving something out of the ground.