"I think if you look in this budget, this is possibly the toughest budget that certainly a Democratic President has ever put forward..."
"I am concerned. You guys have the veto pen, and I just want to encourage you to not be afraid to take a stand."
"The President has presented us with a budget that spends too much, borrows too much and taxes too much."
"What is so frustrating about this is, you know the drivers of our debt are the entitlement programs. And yet, you are doing nothing to address that."
"I don't know where you are from, but where I come from, most of our jobs come from successful small businesses."
"the elephant in the room is the tremendous growth of entitlements."
"Why did you duck, why are you not taking this opportunity to lead?"
"Do you think that the tax increases that you are planning on in 2013 on mostly successful small businesses in the investment community in America, on job creators; you think it is not going to impact ..."
"The President has disappointed us all by declining that opportunity. He punted."
"I would just simply say we are here in a CR because the majority last year didn't pass a budget at all, nothing."
"the recent experience of Europe teaches us that we cannot keep making unaffordable promises without eventually hitting a real debt limit."