"I know in many ways in this country we hate the middle class. We love the rich. We love the poor. We hate the middle class."
"People get tired of the American government hating the middle class."
"I received anecdotal evidence in my district of people not getting married because, of course, if you do not get married, it is easier to be in poverty and get Pell grants."
"Is that not horrible, the way our government--like Karl Marx said, we just want to destroy the American family?"
"I think you are naive. I think they do it on purpose."
"While HLF was brought to justice, the Obama Administration refused to investigate these unindicted co-conspirators."
"Okay, Mr. DeVries. GAO found that personnel management had not yet completed and submitted a data center optimization plan."
"I think our forefathers were antithetical to the government growing at all."
"I tell everybody back home, I was a state legislator for 20 years, Washington is so much more screwed up than Madison, Wisconsin, you can't believe it."
"I don't understand the purpose of either one of those. I mean, it seems to me, if I have a building and I want to sell it, I don't say, first of all, I've got to call the local city and see if they wa..."
"I'd just like to thank the subcommittee chair for holding this hearing. And I hope, at the end, we do something about expediting the disposal of this excess property."