"You mean I just make a choice. Since I can only do one or the other, it is on me and not on the Committee."
"Let's begin to see if we can thread together where we have areas of agreement here."
"Somewhere in the appropriations process the funds that are paid into the Patent and Trademark Office never get back to the Patent and Trademark Office."
"Instead of the funds that are paid to the PTO going directly to the PTO... it goes back to the Appropriations Committee."
"People don't pay user fees for patents as a gift to the society. They're making an investment to get a property right."
"Enforcement without reform will promote a race to the bottom that can only hurt the American worker in the end."
"Enforcement, yes, but that we have got to also talk about the real solutions of reform."
"Enforcement only will not diminish the demand for willing workers, but merely push the undocumented further into the shadows."
"But let's face it. Out of the first hearing on this subject and even this one, would it be unfair for impartial witnesses to come to the conclusion that a number of us here on the Committee have that ..."
"It's easy to see why the anti-regulatory critics have seized on the Crain and Crain Report and its findings."
"The 1.75 trillion figure is a gaudy number that was sure to catch the ear of the media and the general public."
"Whether to become pregnant, whether to continue a pregnancy, or whether to terminate it has long been a right protected by the Constitution."