I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis. Mike Lee Read Quote
The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected. Mike Lee Read Quote
Whether it’s a penalty or a tax, it’s all one in the same. It’s coming out of somebody’s hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that’s the point. So in some ways, to me, it’s a distinction without a difference. Mike Lee Read Quote
My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around. Mike Lee Read Quote
You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better. Mike Lee Read Quote
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. Mike Lee Read Quote
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. Mike Lee Read Quote
It is not nothing to ask someone holding an election certificate in the United States Senate to provide his or her vote. Mike Lee Read Quote
When people were subjected to the impeachment and removal process, Aaron Burr was right there, looking out for their rights, even though it wasn’t in his political interest to do so. Mike Lee Read Quote
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. Mike Lee Read Quote
