"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 think the Federal Reserve allows Congress to be irresponsible."
"I appreciate you holding these hearings because the subject of unemployment certainly is one issue on which everybody in the Congress agrees."
"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?"