Trent Franks

In my heart of hearts, I believe if this happens, in about half a dozen years, Arizona will be a full-scale gaming state.

If the compact totally dissolves, that chaos will be the result.

Ultimately, I would just suggest to you that the record in Arizona is very clear: The tribe was part of a legal compact, and this breaks that compact very directly.

The fundamental bedrock that defines our Republic is the rule of law.

If the Tohono O'odham Nation's plan succeeds, no tribal compact will be safe from such duplicity in the future.

My opposition is not an anti-tribe initiative; I harbor absolutely no ill will toward the Tohono O'odham people or the Nation.

I believe that cybersecurity is a critically important issue, and I think I would find myself largely in Mr. Langevin's camp on that issue.

I just think that the Chairman put it so well in his opening statement, those who threw the Boston Tea Party for excessive taxation of tea, I wonder how they would respond if their government told them they had to buy tea.

We take an oath, we swear to uphold and defend the Constitution, not to adding the words unless the Supreme Court thinks otherwise.

I thank the gentleman. It should be noted the gentleman was a prime sponsor of the partial birth abortion, and will forever be a hero to me because of that.

The current system is as ineffective a mechanism for adjudicating medical liability claims as it can be.

Only reforms to the system at the Federal level can address the current national medical liability crisis.

The medical liability litigation system in the United States, I think, by all accounts, is broken and in desperate need of reform.

It is astonishing how a lot of the economists can talk in big words, but, fundamentally, the economy is about productivity.

If you don't you are not going to go bankrupt you are going to go to jail.

We have seen some major intervention by government that is unprecedented in this country.

I am convinced that the inept intervention by the department is most of what catalyzed the panic.

I just think that you are talking about a modicum of chaos here, and there is a lot of hubris I am hearing here that if the right people were in charge it would all work out okay.

I have got to tell you, I want to be very respectful to Mr. Barr and Mr. Krimminger because I know that you are here, you know, at the behest of others, but you are in a position of having to defend what I think is almost an indefensible…

It institutionalizes the temptation for large firms to take excessive risks, banking on government bailouts.

Unless we understand what triggered the crisis we cannot hope to answer it with the right reform or solution.

The question is, how will Congress respond to the near financial meltdown of 2008?

I just want to reiterate that our economy is not based just on competition; it is based on trust.

I believe you when you say you want to be a capitalist. I really do.

I think that ultimately government is to blame here more than you are.