"The money has got to be passed on to some place. It is just retail politics, and it is retail consumers."
"I kind of feel like hell's freezing over because Chairman Sanders and I actually agree on something, and it is that something needs to be done with PBMs."
"If I have an entity that is not being effective for what their intended purpose is, I would shut them down."
"This isn't working for America. It is working for you all great."
"The trillions of dollars that we spent and the fact that the economy was shut down for that long, I think, led--you know, that was much slower to react to the real science and maybe not the political ..."
"I will not forget easily all the angst that was out in the small business community when we had to put a congressional review act out to make sure you weren't going to force vaccines on employees down..."
"I'm concerned that much of the research around this area of AI has been in the defense and intelligence realms, important to be sure, but not enough is being done specifically as it relates to protect..."
"It is really hard to understand what it is like when you are getting mandated and regulations are coming at you."
"You don't understand what it is like, how hard it is to actually sit awake at night trying to figure out how you are going to man a job when you don't have the people there."
"This is not who we are. We are better than this."
"If the goal is to destroy the goose that laid the golden egg, then by all means, this hearing is a good beginning."
"We are here to say as if this is like Charles Dickens. I mean, we think it is 1812."