The sky isn't falling. We aren't going to have more meteors hit because of sequestration.

The challenges of the last 10 years have made it difficult to find and identify individual businesses in these segments.

I am committed to cutting spending and getting the nation back on a fiscally sound course, and I am willing to make tough decisions.

I would rather prefer that the surgeon use a scalpel rather than a meat cleaver.

It is estimated that over half of the private sector jobs lost to sequestration, which is about 960,000 jobs, are going to be small business jobs.

the goal for the Super Committee was not sequestration; it was a prod.

I ask each of you to consider how can we ever revitalize these industries that have sustained considerable economic injury.

I think it points out a problem. And we ought to really try to do something about it.

Imposing a $100 per flight user fee on operators is simply the wrong approach, and the President offered very few details as to how such a system would be established and even less analysis on how it would impact the aviation industry.

If everyone pays a teeny little bit, which I think Americans are willing to do their fair share, I think we would come a long way to fixing our country's problems.

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.