Jeb Hensarling Quotations

I do not want America to default on its debt.

Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.

I think our seniors have gone 220 years without a prescription drug benefit, ... I don't think they will begrudge us having them wait one more year.

We don't know exactly what's going to happen, but we know something is going to happen, ... These are natural disasters, but they shouldn't be unanticipated.

At the end of the day, conservatives are not going to walk away from the first chance since 1997 to pass mandatory savings,

Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'

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.

A lot of these funds are just going to end up in the hands of very politically active groups to come back and lobby us,

Congress must do everything necessary to attend to the immediate needs of those who have tragically lost their homes and their livelihoods,

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.

The newest battlefield in the fight to protect the First Amendment is the Internet, ... The Internet is the new town square, and campaign finance regulations are not appropriate there.

If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.

In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.

I don't quite understand how someone would want to close down an airport for purposes of saving jobs,

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.

I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

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.

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

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.

We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?

You can't tell me there aren't places to save a penny or two on the dollar and ship it to relief in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, ... I just don't believe it as I look around.

And our people are winning the hearts and minds of the citizens, ... Iraqi people would run out and wave to the helicopters as we flew by. I heard story after story told by soldiers about how grateful these people are to have potable water, schools, and even electricity in their homes - some for the first time in their lives.