"It was a failure of leadership not to be involved. It was a failure of leadership not to know these things."
"This is a matter I have followed for over a decade, and I must say I think the proposal to replace all dollar bills with dollar coins doesn't make any more sense today than it did 10 years ago."
"This 3-to-2 ratio would increase seigniorage interest savings a lot more than the increase in the cost of producing the coins."
"So we have a change in the monetary medium of exchange imposed by government where dollar bills are withdrawn from circulation and replaced by dollar coins and the gain to government is wholly due to ..."
"I don't think the Federal Government should be taking away the choice from consumers whether they hold their cash in coins or dollars, and the public agrees with that position."
"One compromise I can agree with Democrats on is that we need to cut some military spending."
"It mostly has to be to me on the spending side. We used to spend about 20 percent of GDP. We're now spending 25 percent of GDP. Federal spending has gone up at an alarming rate in the last four years."
"When people come to me and say we just have to raise taxes on rich people, one there, is not enough money. Two, you often find that when you raise rates, you get less revenue."
"The top 1 percent pay almost half of the income tax, so when the president says it's bad to raise taxed on everyone, that would be Taxmageddon."
"If it's bad to raise taxed on everyone, it's also bad to raise taxes on 40 percent of the nation's income."
"I want less money coming to Washington, less money spent up here and that's how you get the economy to grow."
"If it was a bad idea last year, it's still a bad idea, and I think while I do think there is room for compromise, I don't think one person doesn't gets to define where the compromise is."