Henry Paulson Quotes

To fix our immigration system, we must change our leadership in Washington and we must change it quickly. Sadly, sadly there is no other way.

While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made merely for political gain must stop. It's time to restore civility in Congress. It's time for action where action is needed - all politics aside.

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform.

This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the case for years now. We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system.

Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.

We have to be bold, tough, and fundamentally change government because Springfield is broken.

My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around.

One: balance the budget now, not later. Two: Get Americans jobs by ending illegal immigration and making legal immigration harder. Lastly: Impose term limits.

The need to change our country's fiscal trajectory, including reforming entitlement programs, is an unassailable reality that will define our time.

We must continue to stand up for what's right and push for bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform.

The good news is that we really do think that ... on the immigration issue, that we will, before summer, have comprehensive immigration reform.

I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country.

How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.

I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

If the choice is between universal health care or fixing our broken immigration system or upholding a 60-vote filibuster rule that is nowhere in the Constitution, I'm going to choose actually making progress for the American people.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

On economic policy, Pence has held to the key building block of growth. He is a budget hawk who voted against President George W. Bush's fiscally bloated No Child Left Behind education bill and hyper-expensive Medicare prescription-drug bill. He said he would not support new middle-class entitlements. He was consistent.

The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.

It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.

People generally think of Conservatives as competent, and they need to see that competence in action in delivering the public services that matter to everyone.

The eyes of the world are fixed on the U.S. to see if we have the political courage and moral sense to solve our debt crisis.

I believe that if we do not prevent Medicare from going bankrupt, it will go bankrupt. And that will be bad for everybody. We have to tackle our debt crisis. We have to tackle the drivers of our debt.

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.