"I think the Federal Reserve allows Congress to be irresponsible."
"That we have to balance the budget and we need to do so by cutting spending. And I think that's the message -- the number one message from the Tea Party."
"Well, some people have pointed out that in the Defense budget, we have about 40 percent overhead. And we require our Defense contractors to only have 15 percent overhead."
"We've got to do something. It's going to take dramatic, across the board look at everything in the budget."
"Do we need 100,000 fighters to stop 100 people?"
"Earmarks is part of the problem, and we must stop it."
"I am philosophically opposed to earmarks."
"Earmarks are absolutely a problem, and we must end earmarks."
"I think the answer to that is that if, as we all sit around this table, is that it is clearly the small businesses that are going to jumpstart the economy and supply the funds to be able to build empl..."
"I believe what will happen is that you are effectively tying both hands behind the economy's back because if you do believe that it is the community banks that will provide that source of funding to a..."
"I think it is a very dicey, risky position that we are in right now if we do not address my two biggest concerns being liquidity and valuations."
"I see a tremendous amount of transfer of wealth going from the community organizations... back into Wall Street."