"There is not a better example in the room right now of somebody who has disabilities but refused to let that stand in the way of going back to work, and that is you."
"It is okay to do the right thing, but you got to make the other side look really bad."
"I can't imagine putting people in a position they get up that want to go to work, and we have made it impossible for them to see the benefit of working anymore."
"I don't believe for 1 minute by disincentivizing people that you are helping them."
"It seems to me like we don't reward good behavior, but we make people think about, well, maybe it is better if I am not married."
"As our families continue to crumble, as we don't have that family nucleus, we lose what it is that is uniquely American."
"Getting up with a purpose every morning is the key to it."
"if our goal, our stated goal, is pro-growth tax reform--because what we are talking about, we need the extra revenues. Where would you get them? Who pays taxes?"
"if we create a Tax Code that is so complicated that drives them offshore and then say, these are bad folks, they are not patriots, they are willing to take their business offshore--it is not that they..."
"wouldn't the idea be a government that is actually an advocate for your success and not an adversary?"
"the real fear is not that you are going to pay too much; it is that you are going to make a mistake, and somehow you are going to come under greater scrutiny."
"I would hate to be sitting there with a tin cup looking for other people to help us."