All Quotes

The thing that's important is, do we defeat Donald Trump? That is what is important and what gives you the best chance to defeat Donald Trump.

You want to play to the people you're trying to persuade.

If they joined in the calls to unify and he offers himself as a strong leader to do that, now there'll be a lot of skepticism about that among those who don't like him.

And that is the hardest thing to brittle because, again, we have this social media culture where you get, you know, you get clicks and followers for being angry and outraged.

He was trying to fill the role that presidents should in a moment like this. This country is in distress and he wanted to speak to that distress and I think he did a good job of that tonight.

I thank Chairwoman Foxx for making the restoration of Title IX such an important priority for this committee. Madam Speaker, we recently celebrated the 52nd anniversary of this body passing Title IX. Fifty-two years ago, everyone saw the…

I hear so many Democrats complaining about this discussion that's going on. And oh, we have to show the kind of unity Republicans show and we're showing this division. It's bull crap.

I hope my colleagues will join me in voting for this motion to recommit.

We often talk about kitchen table issues, and what better time to elevate those issues than this week, which you all have declared in honor of refrigerator freedom. Specifically, as I was walking around July Fourth, I heard a lot of issues…

I'm very concerned. It's going to be a close race.

I think it is my personal goal to die before we have another financial crisis, and then I will be doing my job well.

If you conclude, as you are actively studying it, that you need more visibility into certain areas of, particularly nonbank things that may be parts of the chain of contagion, please let us know, because it is our job to avoid the next…

I guess when things are going well, as they currently are, it is all of our duties to look around the curve and see the risks that keep you up at night.

Do you remember with AIG, the real problem with AIG falling into bankruptcy is that it would immediately put a bazillion of the European banks into violation of their capital requirements, which was major contagion that----

Frankly, when I read about this, it triggered my PTSD from the AIG situation with credit default swaps during the financial crisis.

The good news is that macroeconomic policy is working as designed.

While the Presidency is often the focus of political pronouncements about macroeconomic conditions, there is no question that it undersells the importance and the independence of the work of the Federal Reserve Board.

I will tell anybody that farmers are the best environmentalists that this country has.