"The American people just are not savvy enough or knowledgeable enough about budget terminology, budget dimensions."
"They have never made a decision based on the tax rate."
"if nobody can afford barbecue, it doesn't matter what my tax rate is."
"there is some danger with a commission that makes recommendations that fail because then the commission has failed, Congress has failed once again."
"What we are lacking is the bipartisan support needed to get it done."
"If every life were truly sacred in this country, we wouldn't be having a hearing about programs to keep mothers and their children healthy, fed, and cared for, we would be fully funding them."
"Thank you, Mr. Malik, for your testimony."
"As President Ronald Reagan said, the greatest social program is a job."
"The fact is that the Clinton-Gingrich budgets worked, they reduced the inflation rate, they reduced the tax rate, they created jobs."
"Given the current rate of inflation, the idea we ought to pile more money into the system is an almost suicidal act of hubris."
"When we passed welfare reform it was principled, work-oriented, a system wide overhaul, and it worked."
"My name is on it as the author, even though I didn't write one word of it."