"the big idea for economic growth in our country is fundamental tax reform, where you go in there and clean out this job-killing, thoroughly discredited mess"
"when you are talking about long-term economic growth, you want a different tax model than what the Congress passed in December"
"There is today such a connection between the individual portions of the code and the corporate portions of the code."
"Would not having a one-page 1040 Form... be a public good in terms of simplicity?"
"Today, it is very clear that people loathe the Internal Revenue System."
"I think the American people have a sense right now-- don't you, Mr. Chairman?--that they want us to do something now."
"We ought to make it more attractive to repatriate that money through tax law and incent private sector job growth."
"I clearly come to these trade issues looking for ways to open markets."
"I have voted for every market-opening agreement since I have been in public life."
"In the middle 1980s, Democrats and Ronald Reagan got together. They got together on taxes, cut taxes, kept progressivity, and grew the economy."
"Which would mean that the fiscal picture you have painted today would not be quite the bleak one that you have offered."