"I am excited about what agriculture can do to make a real difference in both addressing the climate issues as well as making us economically competitive."
"Sooner or later things like your sovereign currency are at risk."
"I think if we still have a Budget Committee, we ought to use it through regular order to at least put something out there."
"You don't have the printing press in the basement, and you do not have a credit card that is automatically renewable."
"So, in 2019 we spent about 4.5 trillion. 2020 we did the CARES Act, and that was bipartisan."
"I think if the other side of the aisle had its ways, it would even be deeper than that because there would have been more legislation based upon borrowing money on something that is a little amorphous..."
"The most important thing is we have got to survive into the mid and long-term financially."
"We are consistently going broke as a country because we are projected to be $51 trillion in debt in just 10 years."
"We should have never gotten rid of our energy independence like we did because I think that has caused political problems across the spectrum."
"If you do tax it more, you will have lower economic growth over time."
"We just don't have an economy that will give us more revenue."
"Running $2 trillion deficits, the Trump tax cuts, which by the way were getting close to paying for themselves pre-COVID, that is chump change, $150 billion per year."