Top 18 Mike Lee Quotes

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

We have brought down emissions in this country through our legal system and through technological innovation. We can do this on our own. We don’t have to have the permission of countries all over the world to do that.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

When you have a country that’s been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

There’s a lot of bipartisan rancor, a lot of excessive delegation of legislative power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.

The best thing we can do when we want to elevate civil dialogue in our American political discourse is to do whatever we can to make sure we treat others kindly with dignity and respect, and that’s what I intend to do.

What I am saying is that Donald Trump can still get a lot of votes from a lot of conservatives like me, but I would like some assurances on where he‘s going to stand his ground. I’d like some assurances that he’s going to be a vigorous defender for the U.S. Constitution.

I don’t want a government shutdown. I don’t think anyone does.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

We can’t legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

I’m someone who has a hard time turning down a conversation. And an even harder time starting a conversation and ending it abruptly – ending it before it’s over.

The founding generation would be amazed. It would be surprised. I think it would be very impressed by what has happened since then in terms of our exploding population; in terms of the success of this country economically and otherwise.

We’ve got tax and regulatory policies in this country that are driving a lot of businesses overseas, and so I think there’s a lot that we can do using principles of constitutionally limited government to help address people who share these concerns.

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.

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It’s a form of taxation without representation. I don’t think we can do that.

At any given time, when there is a Republican president, typically we regard that person as the leader of the Republican Party.

I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.