Marshall Sanford

I think that this budget perpetuates this myth that we can balance the budget without impacting entitlements.

I admire you. I appreciate your competence, the way you handle yourself. I think you make the state of South Carolina proud.

I guess my question to each one of you all would be, are we walking our way toward the most predictable financial crisis in the history of man, and are you abetting in that process?

Well, look, if the President can say whatever, why can't I say whatever? He's given them license.

President Trump's campaign energized the white supremacist movement--"unearthed some demons," to borrow Representative Mark Sanford's words.

I want to make sure both of you think leaving it alone is best for the people of Puerto Rico.

Given the fact that this crisis has lasted much longer than people would have presupposed, given that there is a higher cost to people in Puerto Rico in bringing aid and armament--if you want to think about it in defense terms--then why…

Wouldn't it make sense to again enact that repeal for a longer time period so that more aid at a lower cost could go into Puerto Rico?

It seems to me in the back and forth that the--a fairly central question that's emerged has been: Has the cut in funding in IRS resulted in its inability to do things?

Finally, I would simply make this point: Not only can you only squeeze but so much blood from a turnip--and there are certainly limits that have shown themselves, which is around 18 or 20 percent of GDP, regardless of tax rate, up, down…

I will split my time, in the spirit of bipartisanship, with my colleague from Virginia, and I would simply say this: I want to go back to the most basic of all conservative themes, which is we believe that the individual is paramount in…

But when the president says to somebody in the audience, I wish I could hit you in the face if not why don't you do it and I'll pay your legal fees, we ought to call it for what it is, that's a problem.

I do because, again, to have an open and free society there has to be a degree of civility in the way that we relate to one another to have real debates.

I would argue that the president at least is partly, again, not in the totally, but partly to blame for demons that have been unleashed...

The notion of free trade, if you look at the port in Charleston, Charleston and South Carolina have been transformed as a result of open commerce and open investment and free trade.

I do not believe that 3 percent growth is realistic at this particular 10-year juncture.

If you are wrong on these numbers, it means all of a sudden we have created a $2-plus trillion hole for our kids and grandkids here going forward.

I think it is just disastrously consequential to build a budget on 3 percent budget.

It perpetuates a myth that we can go out there and balance the budget without touching entitlements.

I tell my boys all the time that life is a series of course corrections, and what you don't get right in one day, you may get right the next.

Never let a serious crisis go to waste

Ultimately airlines don't pay it. I mean, at the end of the day, it is the consumer that pays all this stuff.

Well, and that was a case where we were actually fighting for our survival as a republic.

We have got to go about looking at the national needs of this country as opposed to just the regional needs or the local needs. We got off on the notion of earmarks, and at times our answer is just to cede to the executive branch that…

I believe we are walking our way into a debt crisis. We are sleepwalking our way in that direction.