“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWarFormPracticeIssuesCongressSpendingBudgetsPerpetualBalancedRepresentationTaxationDeficitBarbaricBalanced BudgetDeficit SpendingTaxation Without Representation Author:Mike Lee
“That's why we have senators and members of congress from every state. That's why we have elections. Because the people speak and there are different viewpoints out there. It doesn't mean just because we're members of one party or another, doesn't mean that we behave monolithically. It means that we will express our view points.” PeopleMeanDifferentStatesSpeakViewsPartyMembersElectionCongressBehaveSenatorsViewpoints Author:Mike Lee
“The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.” PeopleDoeMatterCausesFreedomEffortTalkingConcernProgramAbuseDataUsaCollectionsAbandonRoutineContemplatingTelephonesProposeDatabasesUsa Freedom Author:Mike Lee
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelievePhilosophyGovernmentHappensSupportShareOughtElectionCongressMindsetCandidatesBetter PlaceLimited Government Author:Mike Lee
