"If Tehran tried to rebuild, Israel would know."
"There’s only so much you can pre-negotiate, because the bill is still changing over here as a result of a Byrd bath."
"The United States of America is the most powerful country in all of human history."
"Well, look, it’s the president’s call. I wouldn’t spend the money if it were me."
"we're quickly becoming debt slaves."
"I've said repeatedly I'm for cutting until we run out of votes."
"soft Americans who languished on the sofa... represented a national security and a moral hazard."
"I don’t think the president, any president, has the right to remove the Federal Reserve chairman."
"No, Ma’am. We have our own laws. We have the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. We shouldn’t send prisoners to foreign countries, in my judgment."
"I think that Jay Powell and President Trump need to sit down and, once again, have a hug and a cup of hot cocoa and work it out."
"I don’t believe that President Trump will defy a federal judge’s order. If he does, I’ll call him out on it."