"I certainly don't feel like the President's proposed budget does it. I don't see a concrete plan there."
"We need a constitutional amendment that limits debt as a percentage of the economy."
"If we don't have a sense of urgency about the task before us, as I said, our children will not inherit the blessings of liberty and opportunity."
"I would love to get to a place, Ranking Member Boyle, where all of us could agree on the numbers, the facts, the path."
"We need to cut 2024 spending as compared to 2023."
"the Fiscal State of the Union is rapidly deteriorating and that the path that we are on is just completely unsustainable."
"America is flying blind in mountains of debt and without a navigation system."
"The United States is a declining great power and China is rising."
"When you are in a hole and you want to get out, the first thing you have to do is stop digging."
"I think just about every economist on the left or right... has now been 15 consecutive months of 40-year high inflation."
"We incentivize work. We show the dignity of work is what builds lives, and we are not seeing that right now with what President Biden is doing."