"Which way are we going in this country? Are we having more people in which the government official can watch, or are we having more people voting, you know, somewhere where who knows who's really filling out the ballot?"
"Any reason why we don't do that simple thing to guard against nefarious influence in our elections?"
"I have long had an interest in election integrity, going back to the days when I was involved in State election law in the State of Wisconsin."
"But we're broke, kind of getting back to what the chairman said, we're broke out of our mind, okay?"
"Do you think our judges or the rest of the judicial system is getting too involved in this treatment stuff and are not sending a strong enough message to the dealers?"
"Are you sure we want to remove that stigma? There used to be a stigma. And I think at the time there was a stigma and less people took heroin."
"I know we're stuck on kind of a trend of saying too many people are in prison, and there may be too many people in prison. But to me heroin and related drugs are a new thing."
"I'd like to thank you for being here today. I know we recently passed an omnibus bill and our discretionary spending is going up 18 percent this year."
"The answer is the earned income tax credit encourages you to work and make a little money but not a lot of money."
"This idea that you need to go through some government agency to get job training before you can find a job is just preposterous."
"Why, wherever I go in Wisconsin or when I ask people in Washington, do they sell food stamps for $0.50 on the dollar?"