"I would also probably ask if you've got a million dollars in the bank."
"Perhaps the $2 billion we spend on OAA, if we subsumed that into another program and didn't spend it, that might be saving money."
"If the sole purpose of this is to have prepared meals and nobody else is providing them, we could privatize Meals on Wheels and let food stamps buy the thing and save $2 billion, and then we really wo..."
"Some of us believe more in the ability of government to cure problems and some of us believe more in the ability of private charity to cure these problems."
"I still can't get over how we're going to spend more money and we're going to save money by spending more money."
"You can't just say that we're going to spend $2 billion, why not spend $4 billion or why not spend $10 billion to save more money?"
"Should we not ask these questions, whether or not there is someone else to provide or what the means of the people are before we give these programs?"
"I don't see anybody coming forward to any of these committees saying, 'oh, the problems are getting better, the war on poverty is really working, we have less poverty now.'"
"I am a great believer in the free market, and the thing about the free marketplace and capitalism in general is it is a place where you have voluntary interaction and people get to vote every day."
"It is really about choice, and it is whether or not we are going to say that our choice is somehow superior to the market's choice."
"I guess the problem I have is that when you say the market fails, it to me seems somewhat arbitrary."
"The President wants to increase taxes on those who make more than $250,000. A lot of those are small businesses."