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

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.

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.

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.

If we are really trying to help the economy to recover, why would we put this weight on their back?

This is impossible any place else in the world and sometimes we forget it.

We have reinforced the people's greatest fear, that the IRS works in a completely different set of rules than the general public.

I believe there is almost irreparable damage done to the agency, and the process, as it continues to unwind, makes it harder for the American people.

It's all about trust, and nobody trusts the IRS right now.

How much more time do you think not just this committee but the American people can withstand?

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

The agency right now is tainted.

I guarantee you somebody will put a product in somebody else's driveway, and we will never get a chance to get back in that home again.

So out of 10 buyers, 9.6 of them are not here.

We have got to restore the American family unit in America.

This system is broken, and it is flawed, and psychology has made great strides.

Reunification has got to be such a goal in this foster system.

Do we need to turn off the flood of drugs? Yes. But the problem is we have got a reverse incentive system here.

If you don't have a strong nuclear family, you don't have a strong faith-based folks.

Seems to me that because we have had such a human breakdown in the family unit, that we have more of these children that are out there that cannot be taken care of by a mom and a dad.

hairdressers are regulated in all 50 States, tax preparers are regulated in four.

if we cannot restore faith and confidence in this model Government that we have, of the general public, everything we talk about is just chatter, just idle chatter.

there ain't no fix. There is no way that anybody can look at our current situation and feel that somehow they can trust and have confidence in what we are doing with them.

the problem is the code is far too big to work with.