We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because the flood insurance program's seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That's more than wrong: it's immoral.
I want to protect consumers from their government.
The destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey is unlike anything my home state has ever experienced. As long as I live, I'll never forget those images of elderly women waiting in waist-deep water to be rescued.
Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices.
I do not want America to default on its debt.
I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.
You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.
You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.
From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.
The fate of your paycheck, the fate of your small business should not rest on what side of the bed a Washington bureaucrat wakes up on.
I'm always ready to negotiate in good faith with others.
The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.
If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.
Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.
Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.
I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.
In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.
You talk to any of the job creators, and they'll tell you one of the things that concerns them the most is the debt. And so high levels of indebtedness are going to lead to high levels of taxation, which lead to high level of unemployment.
Nobody wants to shut down the government.
In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.
