"Thank you, Mr. Higgins. Secretary Ross, thank you for coming today. You've been great."
"You tried, to the best of your knowledge, to give everything that this committee wanted."
"This is really basic; is people looking in on this hearing, what's left, looking in, you know, do we have a right to know how many citizens there are in this country, is pretty basic."
"Why I would take--Ms. Hodge, help me understand. I would take the tact as almost discriminatory against that person not to know the background..."
"I think I join most Americans who are tired of hearing big numbers. They are tired of hearing deficits."
"So your $8.6 billion, there will be a return on investment, and it is far more even in 12 months than the cost."
"The rescission package that most of my friends on the left voted against, which basically took unallocated escrow dollars, is that taken into account in this budget?"
"What you just said was exactly what Mick Mulvaney said when he mentioned he could not understand why there was any argument over this $15 billion in cuts."
"I appreciate this effort, and I appreciate you presenting a budget that is at least the first step in this long stairway of getting financially independent and not leaving our children with a $70,000 ..."
"Let me tell you a number that we can go with: 350,000 new manufacturing jobs, growth in the economy."
"We are now three-plus."
"These are real numbers that you can't dispute."