"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."
"It is not government's place to be telling our small business owners how they should be interacting."
"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."
"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 key to that being temporary, again, being a bridge from one point to another."
"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."
"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."
"I have always thought that, coming from the private sector my whole life, I know incentives work."
"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."
"People in Washington don't know what we are going through."