Nobody knows what anything costs in healthcare.

If we don't get the budget in control, is our interest expenses going to come down?

I would argue it--it obviously, hasn't made a dent because we still have climate change alarmists.

I would call it a fiscal crisis. You know, it is a slow moving train running right at us.

So just to make the point.

We're spending $1.9 trillion more this year than we did just four years ago.

If we're going to plus up those benefits, we're going to need revenue out of the general fund.

Unfortunately, in healthcare, only about 10 cents of every dollar is paid by the patient and 90 cents is paid by somebody else.

From my standpoint, if you're looking at how to fix Medicare, you've got to look at the root cause of problem.

My concern about government regulated transparency, it'll be fudged.

The solution here is more speech, not censorship, not enforced silence.

I think the overall solution here is a free press that holds everybody accountable.

I find the Saudi Arabian human rights abuses abhorrent, as I think we all do.

I am highly concerned if Congress all of a sudden inserts itself into a process of saying, we are going to identify a U.S. business that we are going to say it so iconic that no foreign government or, we are going to say who can and cannot…

I always feel a great deal of sympathy for the people that are being ruled by authoritarian regimes.

I hope this Subcommittee will use every authority we have to compel compliance through our legitimate congressional oversight.

Freedom can only thrive in an open society with a government that is honest and transparent with its citizens.

The greatest threat we face being $33 trillion in debt is to have the U.S. dollar no longer the world's reserve currency.

Part of the problem is, what could they really do about it.

I always feel a great deal of sympathy for the people that are being ruled by authoritarian regimes.

transparency starts with within our own government, to become transparency to cough up what they know.

What can we do about this? Do we pass a law, do we stop buying Saudi oil?

I hope this Subcommittee will use every authority we have to compel compliance through our legitimate congressional oversight.

I always go to Louis Brandeis, who probably about a century ago said that the solution for mis and disinformation is not censorship, but more free speech.

If people are not willing to invest in your country, you are doing something wrong with your economy.