Tom Coburn

Well, actually, if you use Amazon you are using the Postal Service.

That is when we do our best work here.

I want to thank Senator Lankford in his role as the Chairman of my Appropriations Subcommittee.

I am proud of the really collegial effort that we are privileged to take part in.

Your husband is now the expert on cybersecurity in the Senate.

How are you doing? How are we doing?

What can we do to help?

If you want to fix healthcare, fix the markets.

As stewards of the Federal purse, we should be ensuring that we are doing all that we can to save taxpayer dollars and create efficiency in Government.

That is not partisan. That is just due to the fact that there is not a commitment to reconciliation and working together to get things done.

The three Cs. Communicate and compromise, those are the secrets for a vibrant democracy.

So, what you are really doing is fighting a dark force that does not want the American people to know what is going on up here.

People--if they are not being held accountable, they do not want to be held accountable--and transparency is what holds them accountable.

The question is--and my advice to the Committee is to look at the roles that the Federal Government has taken over that would be better and more efficiently done at the State level.

The Constitution, actually, is the powerful tool with which to solve the problems of our country.

If you have an oath, why do we have to have a constitutional amendment in order for Congress to do what is best for the country?

I think you ought to offend them all and I think you ought to do what is right.

People worry to death about hearing from the IRS, thinking, 'Maybe my taxes were not right.'

What we need is a simpler, fairer, and flatter tax code, so that everybody pays something.

I have never heard of an Agency that said it had more than enough money.

Right now, the unfunded liabilities of this country, with its debt, are $142 trillion.

The important thing is to restore the confidence in the country, in terms of what you are doing, why you are doing it, and how you are doing it.

You have lost their confidence--and that is not one party--that is both parties.

America does not trust you anymore--that is the truth--because they do not see the actions coming out of Congress that should be coming out.