"I hope and pray that the President and our colleagues in the Senate and my Democrat friends will come to the table and let's raise the debt ceiling responsibly."
"We agreed that the financial health of our country is in decline, and that the deficit spending and debt trajectory is absolutely and completely unsustainable."
"We have got to cut and we have got to grow."
"Let's get back to our core function. We are washed in waste, folks. We are in a sustained inflation crisis..."
"So, the patent system is set up to develop or encourage the development of novel products."
"The incentive is to do one, which is to prevent competition, anticompetitive monopoly forces, versus the money it takes to develop truly novel innovation."
"Does it make any sense to be on track to have interest be the largest Federal program?"
"What is it going to take to get people's attention?"
"More is said than done, and we have got to start getting to doing instead of just talking."
"The only thing more unimaginable than that is that $32 trillion in debt and the interest on that debt."
"We got to take a position, and I respect my colleagues for putting some of their thoughts on paper."