"It is the destruction of the currency that destroys the middle class."
"Trillions and trillions of dollars being printed out of thin air, and bailing out their friends."
"Congress keeps spending the money. Welfare expands exponentially. Wars never end."
"That bill has nothing to do with transferring who does monetary policy. It is strictly a transparency bill."
"I think one of the problems even getting a full-fledged discussion out is sometimes the definition of words, about what 'inflation' and 'deflation' means."
"Our argument is that once you distort interest rates and increase the supply of money, you end up with this gross distortion that is demanding some correction."
"We have had this for 5 years, and we are still in a mess."
"I am always struck by the ability of my Republican colleagues to engage in a kind of duality of the mind with regard to Federal spending."
"I am proud of those. While we can make them more efficient, I am not prepared to maintain more and more military spending at their expense."
"It does appear that when Mr. Bush had an important economic appointment to make, he said, get me the usual suspect, which was Chairman Bernanke."
"The most important, according to the way it is presented here, is what is going on in Europe."
"to quote the chairman, it sometimes isn't."