In my five years here, I have not seen Congress ever accept a President's budget, whether they are Republican or Democrat, straight on.

I think that Members of Congress need to remember that the President doesn't pass a budget. Congress passes the budget.

I think last year when President Trump talked about this war on drugs, he had talked about nonaddictive painkillers because we are a Nation now of dependence or codependence.

We have run out of options as a country. We have to get this fixed.

What we really need Anderson, is we need leadership. You know, we need people who we elect to office to say, hey I'm not going to do the most politically expedient thing. I'm going to do the right thing.

We've got to convince them to have the courage to them stand up and do what's right.

We need the people we elect to office to first stand up and acknowledge that we have a problem in this country, 35,000 people dying from gunshot wounds, another 100,000 shot every year is completely unacceptable, it's a problem.

if we don't start looking at the economic impact, when we start to lose American jobs ... then I think we are missing the entire boat.

I think sometimes we forget in government that our purpose is to serve the people, not them to serve our agency.

Now, as a person who has always been in the private sector, it is hard for me to understand that money is the answer to this.

Meanwhile, I just read a report by the Social Security Commissioner's Office that last year, 2016, the agency spent over $16 million on union representational activities.