Mike Lee Quotes
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The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.
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When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
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The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.
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When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.
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My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.
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The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.
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I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.
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Limited government must come politically, not judicially.
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We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionall y limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.
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I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.
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You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.