"This country was built on work ethic and character and liberty and all those qualities in past generations."
"That is just not true. They are not even proposing anything like that."
"Now what I am concerned about, Chairman Ryan, and others, is that there is too much of a faith that markets are going to correct themselves."
"But regulations are needed in order to protect the public interest."
"I don't know any other country on the face of the Earth that is more masochistic than we are when it comes to sucking or carving something out of the ground."
"He is absolutely right. But we have now opened up the special interests to win elections by distortions."
"We ought to prevent diseases rather have to pay to treat them later."
"That doesn't make sense to me."
"President George H.W. Bush signed the law that put in place a cap-and-trade program that told private enterprise, You figure out how to reduce the sulfur emissions that are causing acid rain."
"We see in Europe the idea of austerity; it has put England into a double dip recession."
"There are things called market failures."