Sam Graves actually said...

"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."