I appreciate very much your attention to the ongoing initiative there.

There are two great motivators in life. One is fear, and the other is reward.

What we need is the workers and the employers being the inspectors, bringing forward those things that need to be changed.

I'm a big supporter of whistleblowers. In fact, I passed legislation a couple of years ago within the Peace Corps to create a whistleblower standard in the Peace Corps that had not existed before.

You've just underlined my point, because we all know the fear is the inspector.

I thank the leader for the introduction and I am very pleased to introduce today the Reverend Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. He is a gifted author, a gifted and prolific preacher, and a great…

As a former Governor of Kansas, I have a question for you.

I personally think calling Social Security and Medicare an entitlement is a little bit wrong, because I have paid 1.35 percent of my income for Medicare since 1968 and 6.2 percent of my income for FICA taxes for Social Security.

I was one of eight Republicans who met for a series of 8 weeks with Denis McDonough.

if we continue to promise more than we can deliver and do not reform the system, one day the game is going to be up and the American people are going to be left holding the bag.

the actuarial clock is ticking on our country in terms of debt and deficit, and all of us in both parties are going to have to sit around a table and talk about some very difficult discussions.

I concur with your opening statement, talking about how tax simplification is the key to this.