I feel good. I've got a lot of energy. I've got a lot of purpose, too.
I've been a stalwart for national security.
I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.
Even some of my Republican friends say I have a populist, progressive streak. I am not a doctrinaire, anti-government person.
A lot of my friends tried to talk me out of running.
I don't want Congress setting monetary policy.
Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.
I don't believe $25 billion or $50 billion or $100 billion is going to change the way Detroit does business.
Dodd-Frank greatly expanded the regulatory reach of the Federal Reserve. It did not, however, examine whether it was correctly structured to account for these new and expansive powers. Therefore, the Committee will be examining the appropriateness of the Fed's current structure in a post Dodd-Frank world.
We have a unique relationship with the U.K., Great Britain. Tony Blair has been a steadfast spokesman for Britain, and also for the joint interests that we share.
I believe that when you are attacked like we were attacked in America by these terrorist groups, that we not only have to respond in kind, we've got to go farther. We've got to destroy these groups because just sure as we don't - if we didn't respond, we will be hit again and again and again, and we will live in fear.
What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.
I do not like government-sponsored enterprises.
I believe Europe is burning financially. Europe's problems are not going to go away. They are so structural. Yet, our problems are right behind them. We cannot just look at Europe.
I want people to have the right to bear arms.
I'm going to put the interests of the nation first.
I want the market to work if it can, and most of the time it will, but not without some pain.
I have been advocating for a long time that the Export Import Bank shouldn't be for one or two companies, and that's what it's for, basically.
A lot of people don't believe that Kirk-Heitkamp is a real reform bill.
People who are going to do us harm are never going to register guns. Terrorists, you believe they're going to register guns? Why, no. Goodness, alive, are you crazy?
