Tom Rice

The only problem with Federal trust funds is if they are not funded, you can't trust them.

There are a whole lot of major issues that are facing this country that have been over our heads for a long time, and I believe are holding our economy back: tax reform, healthcare, infrastructure, but none more important to more people…

The independence and State sovereignty is important.

Don't taxes have a very direct impact on trade?

How can you ensure that we achieve fair trade, trade where American companies and American workers can compete on a level playing field?

I say make America competitive again.

Just to clarify, the President is not talking about cutting benefits. He's talking about cutting administrative costs.

Thank you for your efforts.

If we truly want to grow the middle class, if we want to give them a raise, if we want to reduce income inequality, we must make our Tax Code competitive in the world.

How can we sit here on our hands and put our American companies at a disadvantage to those?

But what has our country done? You know, where our country fails to recognize, we argue about, you know, maintaining this level of revenue or that or how these benefits are going to be disbursed through society, but the fact that we have…

If there were 24 of these special prosecutors and they recovered $14 million that is what, about a half million dollars apiece? I will tell you what, they pay for themselves.

The CEO of a major hospital in South Carolina stated, the way it is going right now, it is probably going to implode in the next year or two. Our State's director of insurance, last year, said companies have given their best shot and can't…

I put that on Washington, D.C.

It seems to me that the way you deal with poverty is you have to do what you can to make sure people have opportunity on the one hand, and then on the other hand you have to do what you can to make sure they take advantage of that…

With $20 trillion in debt, we have to make sure that those dollars are spent wisely.

Obviously, we have to eliminate every drop of fraud that we possibly can.

Medicare is certainly a noble and essential program provided by the Federal Government. It is a promise made to our seniors, and we have to make that promise solid and keep it--and make sure it is kept.

We have to offer solutions. I believe it is one of the factors that is holding our economy back.

If you talk about reducing the outgo, cutting people's benefits, you make that population angry.

We have got less money coming in than going out in the long run, and that money will run out eventually.

We have got to get the American people aware that you have got to get to work. It is about jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs.

If they are spending their money on lazy rivers, then, in fact, they should be taxed.

I think one thing is people don't know about it.

I have three sons. I have a 31-year-old, a 29-year-old, and a 27-year-old, so I felt the pain, and I was glad when my youngest graduated.