Mark Kelly

There is just no logic to doing that. It is totally illogical, sir.

Do you know that by 2025 just the interest on our debt is going to be $785 billion.

This is a Christmas wish list that nobody could possibly fill.

There is just no way. No. There is no way you can defend that.

We are going to lose those markets and sit back and wonder why we lost them.

If we are really going to be the defenders of freedom and liberty around the world, we better be the strongest economic machine that is out there.

Listen. I believe, philosophically, that what you are saying is correct.

If we are truly going to have an economic recovery, and if we believe that 95 percent of the market is outside our country.

We are concerned about that.

One of the things that has bothered me since I got here--I am from the private sector, and I have never understood how you can continually spend more than you take in...

But, by the same token, I know that at some point we run out of the ability to fund all those things.

Private sponsor of traditional pension plans must fund their plans using an average, high-quality corporate bond rate...

I think we put a heck of a burden on the private sector and walked away from it.

I think sometimes we forget, it is not the government that provides one single penny to run this machine.

This is not a Republican and Democrat. This is an American problem.

If this isn't a crisis, we had better look up in the dictionary what a crisis is.

My constituents want a Social Security office that is open.

We do have problems that need to be worked on... not trying to figure out how to whip up everybody into some fear position.

We should be ashamed of ourselves if we are frightening senior citizens.

We have gone so far away from what this--how it works. It just drives me nuts.

There's an old adage about don't worry about the mule, just load the wagon.

I just think that sometimes you try to help people, and they turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to what you have offered them.

If you came here for a political career and you didn't come here for the people that you represent, then my God, take a look at the mirror and say, am I still doing what they sent me to do?

Our job in this body is to protect the hardworking American taxpayers' investment, their tax dollars, and make sure that they are being spent the right way.

We have destroyed the regular work week, and we continue to put a heavy burden on people who actually are trying to rebuild the economy.