"What if you brought in 30,000 lobster and they found 10,000? You could get 10,000 years in prison."
"Make the law, but it would then be a U.S. law. But don't say that we are going to accept all the laws of Kenya."
"I see no reason to have criminal penalties."
"I don't think we should be putting Americans in jail for this."
"I am honored to be here today to urge the House and Senate to move forward on the Freedom from Over-Criminalization and Unjust Seizures Act of 2012--the FOCUS Act (S. 2062 & H.R. 1471)."
"The FOCUS Act makes significant revisions to the Lacey Act, revisions that we believe are necessary to prevent Americans from having their businesses raided by armed federal agents."
"I refer to the Lacey Act as 'dangerous' because of the ways in which it has already wreaked havoc in the lives of many innocent Americans."
"Most recently, just this past August, Henry Juszkiewicz, the Chairman and CEO of Gibson Guitar Corporation, had his company raided by armed federal agents."
"it is an attack upon our sovereignty, as Senator Rand Paul mentioned in his testimony."
"The crisis we face right now is a crisis in debt and how we handle this debt."
"Who gets stuck with the debt? Who gets the bailout?"
"Other times, governments and central banks participate in liquidating debt by diminishing real debt."