"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."
"We've all heard about Wall Street greed. I think people are now starting to be a little bit more sensitized to Washington greed - the greed for power and control over our lives and our economy."
"You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work."
"As a matter of principle, Republicans do not believe in federal price controls."
"There are several different ways we can get at unclogging the arteries of lending in America and helping working people achieve financial independence. Part of that is going to be through executive action. Part of that is going to be through reconciliation."
"Even though I'm a chairman, I don't always get my way."
"After Dodd-Frank, the big banks were bigger. The small banks are fewer."
"I'm always ready to negotiate in good faith with others."
"The easiest thing that is done, unfortunately, in Washington is to spend money today and send the bill to our children and grandchildren."
"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."
"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."
"Having just one insurance provider for all flood risk in the entire country makes no sense."
"Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices."
"Dodd-Frank represents the greatest regulatory burden on our economy, more so than all the other Obama-era regulations combined."
"If I live my life thinking that something might not pass the Senate, I would never even get up and bother to go to work."
