Chuck Grassley Quotes

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

Judge [Samuel] Alito enjoys the support and respect of the people who work with him, practice with him and, therefore, know him best.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

Gifted students represent a vital resource that has unlimited potential. We need to make sure that these exceptional young people have the support and services they need to be successful.

The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.

Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is right and wrong, but to say what the law is, rather than what they personally think the law ought to be.

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

If we do our job right, the Supreme Court won't be made up of men and women who are on the side of the little guy or the big guy; rather, the Supreme Court will be made up of men and women who are on the side of the law and the Constitution.

When the Democrats were investigating the U.S. attorneys that were accused of responding to political pressure, that I joined Senator Leahy in efforts to get transparency of all of the documents.

It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.

I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can't answer for anybody else.

I don't like to see facts twisted, untruths fabricated to give the [Supreme Court] nominee a black eye, even before he comes before Senate committee.

I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.

Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the one agenda that our founding fathers intended in writing the Constitution: justice, rather than political or personal goals.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

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Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities

I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.

There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.

I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

I'm worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, .. When I hear about leaders of charities being provided a $300,000 Bentley to drive around in, my fear is that it's the taxpayers who subsidize this charity who are really being taken for a ride.

I think that less presidential interference the better.

My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.