David Schweikert

Doctor, the morality argument I really want us to make is the way we have designed these programs, as they were originally designed decades and decades and decades ago, we now understand, we are financing people's misery instead of…

Yes. On the economic side, we call it knock-off effects, second-degree, third-degree effects. In some ways, they are not even that. They are just the principal effects.

It is fascinating when I am home in Arizona, the number of folks I walk up to who will almost pull me aside and say: I can't believe you were willing to talk about that. You told the truth. It is almost like they weren't ready to have…

Doctor, look, my personal philosophy, I am probably a little bit more libertarian here. Have what you want, but understand, A, should government finance things that make our population less healthy, and, as a matter of fact, make much of…

Yet, I promise you, tomorrow, we will have things on our phone attacking us for telling the truth. Mr. Speaker, I am going to argue our willingness to come here and tell the truth--I love people. I want them to flourish. Doctor, we are…

I say to my friend from Texas, your intro was actually brilliant because we are going to try to do something this evening that is going to make a whole bunch of people really cranky. Mr. Speaker, let's see if I can frame this in a way that…

I need the next--you know, the folks who venture to bring in the next generation of talent.

The hundred percent expensing, which we believe may, at least in the text from single biggest driver of economic expansion is a timing effect.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Moore. We all get titles.

I am going to try to walk us through a couple simple concepts that require really complex math, so wish me luck here. Last week, and the week before that, I came here and tried to walk through a concept of how fragile we are because of our…

We are going to do something this evening. Unless you want to sort of geek out a bit, I am not sure you want to hang out watching this, so maybe there is something good on Netflix. I am going to walk through a couple of financial debt…

I am going to try to explain something. I have come behind this mike a number of times, and I have had a little trouble. Apparently, I am not communicating well, so I am going to try a slightly different way. Let's back up a bit. I think I…

I want to know what we can do to help maximize stability.

My fear is, as a committee, we are not telling each other the truth of the scale of the borrowing stress.

We have one-half hour. We have a number of different things to make it through. As we know, our running sarcasm is that we all work in a math-free zone where we use feelings to make public policy and then we wonder what the hell is going…

I am going to try doing something this evening. This is going to be difficult because I am going to try to explain something that has been annoying me and has me concerned that what I am learning is actually really dangerous to our…

How do we maximize economic expansion? Because growth is moral.

We are going to try to do three things tonight. One, I am going to spend a few minutes sort of talking about folklore. I have tried this a couple of times. It hasn't worked, but hope springs eternal. I will sort of walk through some of the…

I actually am about to try to make everyone mad. I actually believe data is a private property right. It belongs to you as an American citizen. The problem with our design here, it is really well-meaning, but it doesn't get at the…

It is our own policies that are the barrier to the adoption of these technologies.

We are going to do something really daring tonight, and we will see if it actually works. We are going to use some boards, some math, that I haven't even seen the final numbers on. We were working on them over the weekend in regard to…

If you actually had a supportive Federal Government, or one that just got the hell out of the way, what are you capable of?

we are borrowing, what, $95,000 a second, and almost every dime of the growth of that spending is interest and health care costs.

It has taken us again and again right to the brink of shutting down the government.

What is unique about President Harvier and his leadership is the Salt River Pima Maricopa is actually very sophisticated.