"The American people here deserve to know why they were misled."
"Even Lois Lerner retired with full pension, even though she had been held in contempt of Congress."
"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?"
"As Harry S. Truman said, the buck stops here. It stops at the top."
"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..."
"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."
"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."
"I think there were 1,000 unique emails that they were able to find off those tapes."
"As of today, not a single individual has been held accountable in any way for what happened with the IRS."
"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."
"What really does it for me is you had these backup tapes in West Virginia, and the Inspector General testified about what he did."