Markwayne Mullin Quotes

When we have agencies like EPA shutting down businesses, I don't trust them at all.

The EPA has a history of overreaching its authority.

Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.

We must, we must cut the EPA's legs off. I hate to say that, because it sounds rotten, but they are choking this country to death with legislating through the bureaucracy in Washington.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

We have seen an outrageous increase in the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the federal government.

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

If power lies more and more in the hands of corporations rather than governments, the most effective way to be political is not to cast one's vote at the ballot box, but to do so at the supermarket or at a shareholders' meeting. When provoked, corporations respond.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

We can't expect Wall Street to police itself - that's why we have a federal government.

I don't need a strong EPA. I don't need to fund a lot of money there.

When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet.

Washington told Wall Street, 'We're going to let y'all regulate yourselves.' The Republicans were in charge. They never said a word.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

No business is above government, and government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above government.

We would write an amendment to the Constitution giving the Federal Government the right to regulate all private business and to enter into any business which it deemed proper …

I do not dread these corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain and control them.