"It is selective non-prosecution. It is turning a blind eye to the law."
"It is my hope that this case will help lay that political debate--it's a political debate--to rest."
"We have had some real changes in that war, if you will, in the last few days, when the FDA, after 10 years of pushing by DEA and Attorney General and me and others, finally upscheduled Vicodin and Lor..."
"But the day after FDA upscheduled these hydrocodone drugs, like OxyContin, the next day, inexplicably, the FDA Director allowed the sale of Zohydro, a new, extremely potent, 10 times OxyContin's stren..."
"The pattern that we have seen so far in opioid abuse, first OxyContin, which exploded in my district, I think probably ground zero for the country, 10, 12 years ago, finally we were able to bring it u..."
"I fear that this Zohydro in straight pill form--you can crush it and shoot it up, chew it, whatever--will be abused just like OxyContin was, and we are going to see more young people die."
"I asked him at a hearing like this, do you think the IRS has betrayed the trust of the American people? And he said, yes."
"I value my partnership with Ranking Member Lowey, her counterpart on the Senate side, Chairwoman Mikulski, as well as Ranking Member Shelby."
"I have serious concerns about the proposed regulation published by your predecessor in November."
"I hope that you are the right person to right the ship."
"I think that the recent report that came out about the alleged abuses, the timing was excellent."
"I am on record here three, four, five, maybe even more, times saying that, if, indeed, abuses were committed... I am as outraged and upset and lack tolerance of it as much as any Republican or any Ame..."