"The current process of keeping taxpayer dollars out of the hands of criminals, tax evaders, and the chronically incompetent is stove-piped, fractured and inadequate."
"The American people deserve to know who ordered the targeting, when the targeting was ordered, and why."
"I think you're exactly right. And so one of the key tenets here is, in fact, your ability to take your after-tax money, you've already paid your taxes, and give it to a group that's considered 'tax ex..."
"I really firmly believe that that's been going on, and I think that should be made statutorily illegal."
"the history of anonymous free speech, of the right of people to associate, and to associate in a way in which their ideas can be put forward without retribution is, in fact, not a conservative history..."
"Congress should reaffirm that the laws that Congress has enacted to protect taxpayers and citizens from an overreaching Federal Government in fact apply to the IRS."
"This was the targeting of the President's political enemies, effectively, and lies about it during an election year."
"I'm not a defender of the IRS; I'm a defender of my constituents who want there to be accountability."
"I believe that the IRS, and its employees and Federal employees should be held to the same standard when they lie to us."
"We need to give a--number eight--a private right of action to citizens to be able to go--to file lawsuits and to recover damages for the violation of their constitutional rights by Federal employees."
"We must--and I think the committee should expand its investigation and ask and investigate, because I'm absolutely convinced that the IRS has used campaign finance reports and, in particular, donors t..."