This Week's Quotes

We should have these conversations, and we should move forward instead of just spending dollars researching it and accomplishing nothing for our Native American tribes.

We need to make sure, with respect to targeted tariffs, that we’re doing everything we can to promote American jobs and to get our products a fair deal and a fair trade.

If you do away with tariffs, that doesn’t protect our beef anymore.

Diversity is not our strength—unity is our strength.

You don’t do these deals in the public. At some point, you have to give the people elected to lead this state the opportunity to lead.

I have no problem letting the people in the state of Louisiana decide whether what we put together was worth it.

With Iran, I don’t think you could ever have peace.

Because by annihilating Iran, we’ve created peace in the world.

I opened an investigation into OpenAI on Sept. 10 after its agents breached New York-based open-weight AI platform Hugging Face in July.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declined to attend and testify.

The action is going to happen in the lame duck.

Where there’s opportunities to put certain guardrails in our spending bills — there are tools, there are mechanisms — we have to be diligent to it.

President Trump needs a qualified group of people in place to carry out his agenda, and the American people deserve leaders who understand whom they work for.

Let’s say the White House called and told you to approve an Ex-Im loan that benefits the president’s son. Would you take the call, or would you report it to Congress and the inspector general?

These cuts will mean more fraud in the mortgage market, more cheating of families, higher costs for people trying to buy a home.

But instead of waiting until the Senate is back in session, you’re ramming through [President] Donald Trump’s lapdogs without a full and fair hearing, the kind that the American people deserve.

I give us an A-plus on the government, on economics — all of it.

We need Ken so badly, and that’s why I’m here.