He is absolutely right. But we have now opened up the special interests to win elections by distortions.

We ought to prevent diseases rather have to pay to treat them later.

That doesn't make sense to me.

President George H.W. Bush signed the law that put in place a cap-and-trade program that told private enterprise, You figure out how to reduce the sulfur emissions that are causing acid rain.

We see in Europe the idea of austerity; it has put England into a double dip recession.

There are things called market failures.

The market failure of insurance for health care. People cannot buy it if they have preexisting medical conditions.

Stimulus, either by tax cuts or direct expenditure, is what you need when there is strong unemployment to get people back to work.

I don't believe that the basic idea of Keynesian spending stimulus works.

I haven't heard any jobs proposals from the Republicans except give upper-income people more tax breaks.

If you don't regulate pollution, the waste disposal into the air would be free.

Thank you for being here today. I know it is tough to come in here.

A robber baron is a government that steals money from middle class hard-working taxpayers and gives it to rich bundlers like Solyndra.

my best advice to you is to perform a fundamental cost-benefit reconsideration of many programs in the Federal budget.

I don't want anybody to get hurt. But the fact is that people do get hurt when we have a mismanagement of the economy...

I think there is an appearance of unseemliness. And that is why I think the system we have for funding campaigns is one that we ought to definitely change.

There were regulators at Lehmans.

Greed is not unique to government. Greed is unique to people.