Jason Chaffetz Quotes
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I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I think we ought to be cutting more.
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Throughout my first year in office, I have stood up for principles that will guide our country back toward the path of freedom and prosperity.
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The biggest problem that we have on the face of the planet is Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
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From December 2007 through June 2009, average federal employee salaries increased by 6.6 percent, while average private-sector salaries increased by 3.9 percent.
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While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.
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If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.
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I think, from the broad political spectrum, not just the Freedom Caucus, I think there is a need for internal reform that is how we bring bills up, getting back to regular order, how we offer amendments or don't offer amendments.
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Straw purchasing is illegal.
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I'm an optimist.
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People have seen me fighting everything from 'Fast and Furious' to the IRS on Planned Parenthood to a host of things, Benghazi and others.
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There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.
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You've got to speak; you've got to be able to articulate the Republican message to the American people and take that fight to the president, but you also have to bridge internally.
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The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense.
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I'm not scared of diversity. We have to have debates and win the argument, and if there are amendments that need to be brought up so we find out where the party is, so be it.
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I got more whistleblowers from the Secret Service than I do anywhere else. And if you look at that department and agency, it's the one place you can never, ever, ever make a mistake - ever.
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There are those of us that believe if you truly want to try drive down the cost of gas, if you really want to solve the problem, then you should be pursuing the extraction of our resources that are right here at home: alternative energy and traditional.
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Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new tax cuts.
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When Steny Hoyer brings up a resolution to support and recognize the University of Maryland men's basketball team - I'm not making this up - before we even had March madness, then you just know that it's just political favoritism.
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High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.
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We have got a - we've got a good federal work force, but we have too many people, and we're paying them too much money.
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It doesn't take a lot of seniority to vote the way you promised to vote.
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When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem.
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In addition to higher pay, federal government employment is far more secure than private-sector employment.
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You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.