Jeb Hensarling Quotes
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I want to protect consumers from their government.
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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.
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In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.
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Even though I'm a chairman, I don't always get my way.
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Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices.
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Nothing says 'economic growth' like fundamental tax reform.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.
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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.
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After Dodd-Frank, the big banks were bigger. The small banks are fewer.
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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.
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In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.
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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.
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I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.