Roscoe Bartlett: “The more money I keep here in the United States, the better off I am going to be at seeing people go back to work.”

They have 1,300,000 people, 900 million of them in rural areas that through the miracle of communications know the advantages of industrialized economy, and they are saying, Hey, guys, what about us?

In your view, is the average citizen in these countries now better off under the dysfunctional government than they were under the tyrannical government?

I think that it is very unlikely that even if they had a nuclear weapon capable of reaching our shores that they would launch it towards--why would they need to do that if they could simply put a medium-range missile on a ship and launch…

That is testimony to our inability to adequately communicate with our constituents the average constituent believes that if we just didn't have any earmarks-- and now we don't-- that if we cut out foreign aid and if we cut out waste, fraud…