Rand Paul

Lowering marginal tax rates, that is what we are all about. Lowering, simplifying, getting rid of loopholes--it is in the Republican jobs plan.

I want to thank you for coming and congratulate you for inadvertently, or maybe advertently, supporting part of the Republican jobs plan.

The Soviet Union failed because they could not determine the price of bread. We are in a failure as a country because now we are trying to determine the price of money.

I am wondering if I can assume today that your testimony is here today in support of the Republican jobs plan.

Under Kennedy and Reagan, when we significantly lowered marginal tax rates, we did significantly lower unemployment.

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I usually think once there is an emphasis on independence of the Fed, it usually means the secrecy of the Fed.

Transparency of the Federal Reserve has been an issue that I have been working on for many years, and I consider it very, very important.

The Constitution is rather clear on if anybody is to have any oversight, it would be the Congress rather than the Executive Branch.

We go week after week in the Senate and do nothing. I feel like sometimes I should return my check because I go up they do no votes and no debate.

I like the idea of the endowment. I have a suggestion. There's this guy I've been hearing about in the news, apparently he has a lot of money and he feels under taxed, Warren Buffett. You all should talk to him.

Oh my goodness, you've come not asking for more money. I love it.

Thank you for holding these hearings. I don't have an opening statement. But I look forward to hearing the testimony.

We need to be proud of our economic system.

That's an amazing statistic and something we should be enormously proud of.

Socialism doesn't work.

Before we throw all the for-profit hospitals under the bus, HCA has actually been very good at allowing us to do free surgery.

I agree with you that poverty is an important issue. I also agree that we need to understand what causes poverty and what causes prosperity, or we won't be able to fix the problem.

Anyone who wishes to equate poverty with death must go to the third world to do so. Anyone wishing to equate poverty with death must seek out socialism and tyranny.

While we all hope to lessen the sting of poverty, we need to put poverty in America into context.

We are destroying the value of our money and that is why prices are rising.

This is demonstrably false.

This has immense implications for trade, jobs, pensions, military preparedness, and almost everything else that is important.

This is a gross misrepresentation and is dishonest.

The only remedy is honesty.