Thomas McClintock actually said...

"I would like to thank our witnesses for appearing before the Subcommittee today. I look forward to hearing their testimony."

"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 actually generate money for the Treasury that could then be ..."

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

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