"the Administration manufactured and hyped up the crisis in order to prevent... Republicans and Congress... from enacting smart and responsible fiscal policy."
"he decided to use the opportunity to lecture and pontificate, not negotiate."
"the American people are tired of the dysfunction in Washington and tired of their elected officials and leaders failing to get things done."
"this President said he wouldn't negotiate when we had a gun to their heads, and he cost this country and the taxpayers and the people tens of millions of dollars."
"Thank you very, very much, Mr. Chairman. And I thank our witnesses for being here today to testify, many of whom are good and loyal, upstanding members of the State Department, of which I had the plea..."
"To put in another thousand pages of rules and regulations that does not harmonize with the SEC is just simply wrong."
"A hundred-and-nine-billion dollars in new costs--"
"I can't thank my colleagues enough for their 3- to 4-years' indulgence in my absolute passion on this issue."
"Every single investor and saver for retirement deserves the best--the best--information, the best advice that they need."
"I am absolutely disgusted at the fact that we have an Administration that has villainized and disparaged an entire industry."
"In fact, it was National Security Advisor Susan Rice who admitted that some of that $150 billion that Iran will receive will be spent to support international terrorism."