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" The destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey is unlike anything my home state has ever experienced. As long as I live, I'll never forget those images of elderly women waiting in waist-deep water to be rescued. "

Jeb Hensarling

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" We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because the flood insurance program's seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That's more than wrong: it's immoral. "

" The fate of your paycheck, the fate of your small business should not rest on what side of the bed a Washington bureaucrat wakes up on. "

" Every time we've had a pro-growth fundamental tax reform, be it under President Reagan, President Kennedy - you can even go all the way back to President Coolidge - we have seen paychecks increase, economic growth be ignited, and, actually, more revenues come into the government. "

" I want to protect consumers from their government. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 do not want America to default on its debt. "

" Frankly, I do like the idea that we centralize consumer protection for financial products into one agency. "

" 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. "

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

Jeb Hensarling

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" 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.' "

" The bottom line is the best consumer protections are competitive, innovative markets that are transparent. Now, they need to be vigorously policed for force and fraud, but the agencies that do that need to be accountable. "

" 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. "

" The thought of my children growing up in an America with less freedom, less opportunity, and a lower standard of living is a long-term pain I cannot and will not bear. "

" 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. "

" Nobody wants to shut down the government. "

" I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise system. "

" I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare. "

" 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. "

" 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. "