"Not only do we need revenues, but we need to do so in a fair way. Those who have been enjoying the prosperity of recent years should have to pay their share."
"It's time for millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share. This isn't about punishment or revenge--it's about fairness."
"Now we are on an 'unsustainable fiscal path,' to quote the Commission report, which threatens our economic viability."
"I served, along with the chairman of the full committee, Mr. Ryan, on the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform."
"let me just associate myself with the President's remarks yesterday that he would not hesitate to enforce commonsense safeguards to protect the American people."
"I am very grateful for the lives that will be saved and injuries that will be prevented because of the regulation."
"I do want to tell you that on December 10th, 2010, Representative Pressley and I sent a letter to the CEO at Johnson & Johnson, Alex Gorsky, about the targeted marketing and sale of your talc-based ba..."
"we are doing it in order to grow animals faster or, you know, to promote growth and not to promote health."
"some vulnerabilities are thrust upon us as a Nation, and others, like the one we are discussing, are really self-imposed."
"I think the nightmare scenario is that something that perhaps when we were young would have been a routine dose of penicillin or some other antibiotic suddenly is impotent."
"The use of these antibiotics in farm animals do, I think, endanger our health, and there is evidence to say that."