"The only way to avoid these dire results is for Congress to pass and the President to sign new legislation."
"The 2013 sequester is a $109 billion across-the-board, inflexible, and arbitrary cut in spending that will occur under current law on January 2, 2013."
"As part of the House Budget, we propose to replace the sequester with reforms to ensure that we get the deficit reduction we all want"
"I think the key in food stamps is to turn it into a work activation grant, not a block grant..."
"One in six people are in poverty today. Our rates are the highest they have been in a generation."
"I want to make people prosperous and self-sufficient. He said he wanted to turn the poor from being tax-eaters into taxpayers."
"We need to, when we are having these discussions, not talk about 'those people' or 'welfare people.'"
"We simply have to do something about our deficit. Our children and grandchildren are paying a price, and it is going to involve some changes in low income programs for sure."
"You have not been in Washington very long if you think that is what is going to happen, okay?"
"This spending never goes down, okay?"
"You have to have an honest accounting of how much money is going out the door."