If we are serious about not cutting large amounts of funding from the defense budget, something else has to give.

If we could cut the trade deficit in half, we could increase U.S. GDP by a very sizable amount, and create about 5 million jobs.

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.

But I think the sooner we get out of those wars, the better off we are.

I would hope that we might have a more vigorous dialogue on these two things: First of all, is it attainable; and, secondly, do you really need that much at that cost?

I am concerned that about every 12 hours we have another $1 billion trade deficit.

I think Roscoe Bartlett was correct when he said when we are at war and we are not getting anything for it, we are really not getting anything for it, we need to figure out, it is not that difficult to figure out where to get the money to…

Be very careful when you hear somebody say we have so many years of something at current use rates, because our economy is growing, our use of energy is growing.

The average American should be a big fan of coal because the electricity is so cheap largely because coal is the source of the base load production for most of our electricity.

Competition always makes things better and makes them cheaper.

I have been concerned for a number of years that that was an airplane which the Army wanted and had considerable need for.