Jeb Hensarling quotes:

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  • 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.

  • Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.

  • We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

  • In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

  • Nobody wants to shut down the government.

  • What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.

  • I do not want America to default on its debt.

  • In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • President-elect Trump has the vision. And what Mike Pence brings to the table as vice president-elect is somebody who knows Capitol Hill. So he can take Donald Trump's vision, help translate that into actual policy, legislative language, bill text, working through the process so that it ends up back on Donald Trump's desk so that he can sign it into law.

  • The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

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