Henry Waxman

Stimulus, either by tax cuts or direct expenditure, is what you need when there is strong unemployment to get people back to work.

The market failure of insurance for health care. People cannot buy it if they have preexisting medical conditions.

If you don't regulate pollution, the waste disposal into the air would be free.

There are things called market failures.

I haven't heard any jobs proposals from the Republicans except give upper-income people more tax breaks.

We see in Europe the idea of austerity; it has put England into a double dip recession.

I don't believe that the basic idea of Keynesian spending stimulus works.

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.

But regulations are needed in order to protect the public interest.

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.

That doesn't make sense to me.

We ought to prevent diseases rather have to pay to treat them later.

That is just not true. They are not even proposing anything like that.

He is absolutely right. But we have now opened up the special interests to win elections by distortions.

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.

This country was built on work ethic and character and liberty and all those qualities in past generations.

I think we all understand that there is a need for government and a need for it to have reasonable regulations.

And now that we have opened the campaign laws to unlimited and dead-end unreported contributions from corporations, I don't think that the lower income people are going to benefit.

The rich and powerful want to stay rich and powerful. And the less government gets involved to make things fairer for everybody they will get richer and they will be more powerful.

The auto bailout was a success. Why are we fighting against what was a success?

Here we have proposals to cut the safety net out of the poor, take away the guaranteed benefit for Medicare so that millionaires and billionaires can have tax cuts. That makes no sense to me.

Nobody in Canada said, take away their health care for all the people. They said let's do some things on a bipartisan basis that make sense.

Letting States try things out on their own.

House Republicans seem to want to return to an America that pre-dated the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the Great Society.

We can out-compete China. We can grow a stronger and better America, with jobs and opportunities for everyone who works hard and plays by the rules.