Absolutely incredible. What I go back to is I think the main loss here is the loss of faith and trust we have in a form of government that is the gold standard for the world, yet we are violating our own citizens on an everyday basis and…

I get tired of people come in from Government agencies saying, 'Oh, listen, you don't understand how it goes.'

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

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

There is just no argument for that, sir.

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

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

Since the President took office, household incomes--now, please, we should stop using the term 'middle class' because it kind of reflects that we have a higher class and a lower class.

We continue to have this ring-around-the-rosie conversation that somehow things will get better if we just keep spending more money.

We are concerned about that.

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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