I just would rather be in control of my future. I don't want somebody in Washington, D.C. who doesn't know me... to have a determination of what I am going to be able to do in my life.

I think this is absolutely insulting to tell people who have lived their whole life with associates that help make them successful that you did not know what you were doing.

I mean we are killing the goose that laid the golden egg. So striking it and keep saying, 'Lay hen, lay,' those days are gone.

the government has made it impossible for us to keep them on the payroll.

they are not stupid. They cannot keep their companies open ... under rules that make no sense.

It is not government's place to be telling our small business owners how they should be interacting.

there is a cost of operation that we keep messing with all the time by increasing their tax load.

This Affordable Care Act, I mean I cannot imagine something being named worse in my life, 'affordable'? Heavens, no.

When you expand that and you look at different programs that are available, really it is that ability to stay together as a family to get through the hard times that makes it very, very real.

The key to that being temporary, again, being a bridge from one point to another.

This is not a political thing for me, based on a Republican idea or a Democrat idea. This is about what is best for this country.

I don't know of anyplace else in the world that people are more generous with their own money and their own time.

I think the importance--and I would like to associate myself with the remarks of the other Members--of you being here today is really your day in court.

People in Washington don't know what we are going through.

I have always thought that, coming from the private sector my whole life, I know incentives work.

I have cosponsored Senator Feinstein's bill to ban assault weapons.

I am reviewing legislation to address gun trafficking.

I just do not think that law-abiding people want every gun sale in the country to be under the thumb of the Federal Government.

Lives are at risk when responsible people fail to stand up for laws that will keep guns out of the hands of those who will use them to commit murder, especially mass murder.

I have heard from some gun owners who are worried that Congress is going to outlaw features that they really like in guns.

Now, we have some ideas on how we can take responsibility.

the proposed assault weapons ban is a singularly ineffective piece of legislation.

I have cosponsored a bill to require background checks at gun shows.

We believe wholly and completely in the Second Amendment and that it confers upon all Americans the right to own a firearm for protection, collection, and recreation.

But rights demand responsibility. And this right does not extend to terrorists, it does not extend to criminals, and it does not extend to the mentally ill.