"Mr. Painter pointed out that money corrupts politics."
"According to testimony in this committee, we spent over $6 trillion combating climate change, probably haven't made a dent in it."
"I'm just not a climate change alarmist because climate has always changed."
"The progressive groups... utilize their financial wherewithal to impact government to get government to spend its money on their causes."
"I certainly want disclosure as well, but I think it should be toward candidates and certainly when it comes to scientific research."
"I think we've seen certainly with the pandemic the fact that big pharma funds these studies."
"So you think we should have a top tax rate of 73 percent."
"Another problem is if you add it to an income tax you just end up raising massive revenue which I do believe does hurt economic growth."
"I started this thing talking about simplifying and rationalizing the Tax Code, so I'm envisioning a very simple Tax Code."
"My point always is what we ought to have done in 2017, like we ought to do now is simplify it and rationalize it."
"My viewpoint is I don't think there's anything we can really do about it."