Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Pat Toomey

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Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Pat Toomey

Patrick Joseph Toomey Jr. is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States senator for Pennsylvania since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he served three terms as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district, from 1999 to 2005. Honoring a pledge he had made while running for office in 1998, he did not seek a fourth term.

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.
I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.
The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else. — © Pat Toomey
The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.
After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.
I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.
You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.
I tend to look at things from the supply side, looking for ways to make it less expensive to do more production. I think that's what creates a demand and keeps an economy moving.
After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.
I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that's lost all balance.
Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been especially aggressive in pursuing regulations that specifically target coal power plants. These regulations have already put hundreds of Pennsylvanians out of work and will continue to cause economic distress while yielding negligible benefits for our environment.
Coal is an essential part of America's energy future, not to mention an important part of Pennsylvania's economy.
I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.
There is much debate in the scientific community as to the precise sources of global warming.
Rudy Giuliani is more accomplished at cutting taxes than anyone else.
We need statutory spending limits written into law.
There's a rising level of frustration with the disconnect between where the vast majority of conservatives are in this country and how Congress is behaving. There's going to be a wake-up call sooner or later.
Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means. — © Pat Toomey
Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means.
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