"I find that all of the arguments for energy efficiency, you're exactly right. We should conserve energy."
"But you restrict our choices, correct?"
"I find it really appalling and hypocritical."
"You busy bodies always want to do something to tell us how we can live our lives better."
"Everything costs more to go back and retrofit the toilets that don't work."
"I am hopeful, but not overly optimistic, because of the long-term history of 1,000 years that they don't readily adapt to true liberty."
"A lot of people in this country have come to the conclusion that our policy overall has been inconsistent; that sometimes we support the bad guys and the bad guys become our enemies."
"We keep supporting Algeria and Morocco and Yemen and all these dictators, and yet we pretend that as soon as it looks like the dictator might fall, oh, we are all for democracy and we are for freedom ..."
"I think a friend bought is not a friend, and I think a friend that is coerced by military power is not a friend and breeds resentment."
"What is wrong with swearing off support for and aid for all dictators?"
"I would hate to think they were the first ones to warn us. I think they were the last ones to even recognize what was going on."
"I appreciate you holding these hearings because the subject of unemployment certainly is one issue on which everybody in the Congress agrees."