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• Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money -…
• Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion,…
• I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs…
• Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs;…
• The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and…
• We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the…
• What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically…
• But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking…
• It is my hope that I can stand before you in two years and report back that our side, as well as the president's, found…
• A good place to start is with the kids ... One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be…
• The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders
• Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's…
• I want what I want when I want it.
• I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.
• I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And…
• I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.
• It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other…
• We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.
• If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental.
• In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately,…

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