Tim Griffin

You said the buck stops with you. Well, it stopped with her before that.

The idea that you are going to give more money to a Federal agency and everything is going to be just okay, it is just a bunch of nonsense.

It seems to me that asking for more money to support a 1976 accounting system is like a race car driver telling us that if we will just give him more money he can win with his 1975 Pinto.

In a weird way I think the Air Force is going to be stronger than ever. We have never had to make choices before now.

We understand that whatever changes we make are going to have an impact, positive or negative, on a lot of Americans.

the Tax Code right now, in my view, is a barrier to that.

the best thing for working families... is a growing economy and remaining competitive internationally.

The longer we wait, the closer we get to the edge of the cliff, the fewer options we have.

Complete and utter nonsense.

I am very concerned about how we pay for the estimated $630 billion that it will cost for Medicaid expansion.

I will continue to advocate for long-term, lasting, permanent reform of Medicaid.

I believe in healthcare reform, and I believe we need healthcare reform, and what I am particularly concerned about is reform of Medicare that my mother relies on and Medicaid.

I have learned in the last two-and-a-half years that when you start to get a lot of the same sort of stories from your constituents, that there is something there.

Americans know that increasing debt is the last thing we should be doing.

I want to be really clear as well. I haven't heard any talk on this side of the aisle about default, wanting to default, using default as leverage.

To say that we had no warning when clearly there were requests for increased security... represents absolute failure on someone's part.

Are we really willing to stand up and protect the individual freedoms and liberties of the American people when the die is cast?

That is why I gave you guys a back door to walk out of. You weren't decision makers, but somebody was.

Who made these decisions that got four Americans killed?

It is unconscionable to me that anyone, any American diplomat would be in a situation where their security request would be denied.

I don't think history plays out that way. In fact, I think it is attributed to Einstein that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.

At what point do we wake up and say, you know what, we are cutting off your allowance.

I have never been able to buy off people who have evil intents by just giving them money. It kind of emboldens them.

The problem is that each one comes with a waiver. And the problem with waivers is that invariably they are exercised, and it is that that needs to be stopped.

The idea that people on this side of the aisle are anti-regulations per se is just nonsense.