Thomas McClintock actually said...

The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad...literally transformed America.

Well, it used to be we could thin out a forest, sell that excess timber, and the foresters would come and identify the timber, and we would ...

We are already paying, both Republican and our governmental debt, about $475 billion just to rent the money we have already spent.

My greatest fear for our country is that our spending-driven debt and our annual deficits are setting the stage for a debt spiral.