Ron DeSantis

I think that what is kind of at the foundation of society, are there pockets where you could actually have more liberal views about the proper role of government.

I worry that the clamping down on civil society and human rights is making the situation--we are certainly not improving the situation.

I think that we should designate them as a foreign terrorist organization.

Well, in my opening statement I told the story about campaigning for office for the first time in 2012 and asking to speak in front of a group that was in the process of applying for tax exempt status, and they really freaked out about me…

Did the government, did the Obama administration use their powers, their police powers, their powers at IRS, powers to intimidate people because they disagreed with them politically?

Even Lois Lerner retired with full pension, even though she had been held in contempt of Congress.

The American people here deserve to know why they were misled.

As Harry S. Truman said, the buck stops here. It stops at the top.

These need to be thought of as political offenses growing out of misconduct or gross negligence or usurpation.

If you look at Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist, he said that impeachment was about the violation of public trust.

So when you start talking about spending $18 million, what does it cost for gas to get to West Virginia and back? Fifty bucks? Sixty bucks?

I just think that it's frustrating because if a taxpayer treated the IRS the way the IRS has treated the Congress that just wouldn't fly.

Although I didn't know it at the time, the first exposure I had to the IRS targeting scandal occurred long before that day in May 2013 when Lois Lerner publicly revealed the existence of improper targeting by the IRS.

As of today, not a single individual has been held accountable in any way for what happened with the IRS.

The commissioner has convinced me that he is not fit to lead an agency that is has so much power and influence over the lives of every American.

I think there were 1,000 unique emails that they were able to find off those tapes.

At best he just simply refused to avail himself of the proper facts, and came to Congress, and testified under oath, and made a statement that is just factually incorrect.

What really does it for me is you had these backup tapes in West Virginia, and the Inspector General testified about what he did.

The Constitution contains mechanisms for self-defense that can be used to check abuses by civil officers in the executive branch.

As a Member of the Oversight Committee, I join my colleagues in seeking to ascertain the truth about the conduct of the IRS and its employees like Lois Lerner.

I appreciate your point about, you know, going to Gitmo, when I was in the Navy I was there for a time and it is a very professionally run facility.

Rhodes himself said that the Iran deal was going to be the ObamaCare of the second term.

I think part of this, yes, there is deception involved, and any time a major policy is sold to the Congress or the public, that is a major, major thing.

I would think that Ben Rhodes would be falling all over himself to come here. I mean, he seems to think he is so much smarter than everybody.

I mean, in my case you got a homicide, you're going to let that person go with priors? Are you nuts? Just common sense.