"Unfortunately, these Keynesian economic policies, in many people's opinion--and I know some others--but in my opinion, have failed in reality, in real life."
"We do not live our lives that way. Why would we, as a representative of the American people, make decisions for them on that behalf the same way?"
"The reality is that our nation has approximately 215 disasters that have cost the taxpayers over a billion dollars, and that is just since 1980."
"If you are just going to study the projects or only going to build small parts of it, you are really not helping out there."
"Is this an issue, something that should be better addressed at the State level?"
"The Federal Government has tremendous resources."
"I wish I had about 30 minutes to talk about climate change, for instance."
"I have some major concerns about the budget as you know."
"I wish that we could have a dialogue where both sides were really working for what is best for the country."
"I know, and every dollar we send out improperly is a borrowed dollar that we are paying interest on."
"I give you and the President credit that you have included 1.7 trillion in mandatory cuts."