"My fear is right now we are more worried about balancing the budget and what effect that will have on our economy than we are about dealing with our debt."
"Like to keep it that way."
"Well, they would definitely have a pretty hard hit on it, on how they are going to handle it."
"I just don't hear anyone that I am interacting with saying, you know, if we just get to $26 trillion in debt, I think we will be fine."
"I see the other side of this, to say $26 trillion is a more frightening thing to me that balancing the budget is a frightening thing to me on that."
"When I came on January 5, this year's budget deficit was projected to be $1.4 trillion."
"For a lot of independent producers around the country, they have three to five employees."
"What I am hearing are terms like sustainable deficits, that doesn't seem to be working towards getting it under control."
"I have no issue with all forms of energy. I have an issue with going and punishing one group."
"I'd like to borrow, I'd like to expand, I'd like to hire more people, but currently the bank is hiring more compliance officers and we are doing less lending."
"Well, let me just say to you, from the Oklahoma perspective, there has been growth in that area."