"I am wondering whether we have the tools and the will to actually break its back."
"If there is one thing I am certain of from my time as a State prosecutor and my years in Congress, it is that drugs pose a grave and unrelenting threat to the health, safety and security of the United..."
"We must get securing our border and stopping this drug menace right before we entertain new costly ideas or roll back our immigration laws."
"Failing to reform this one program for just 1 year has cost us $2 trillion."
"I have yet to see a single Democrat health care proposal that would direct these savings to deficit reduction."
"The President has stated repeatedly that, quote, health care reform is entitlement reform."
"It seems to me that what we are putting on the tracks here is a brand new entitlement program that could very well likely rival the size and liabilities of Medicare itself."
"And so what I can't comprehend or what I can't get my mind around is how are we fixing the problem here of our long-term fiscal liabilities when we are creating a new entitlement."
"President Obama has made many comments about the creation of jobs."
"If the President follows through on the denial of sole source contracts, is the Pentagon prepared to hire the extra personnel required?"
"How can such a delay be justified given the fleet's importance to our nation's security?"