Chuck Grassley Quotes

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

As the old saying goes, for somebody as famous as you, you don't need any introduction.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

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

Supreme Court nominees should be individuals who not only understand, but truly respect the equal roles and responsibilities of different branches of government and our state governments.

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.

We had global warming between 1940 and 1998. Since then, we haven't had a rise in temperature. That doesn't mean we don't have a problem. If that problem is going to be solved, it ought to be solved by an international treaty.

President Bush has proven he'll take a stand and fight for his programs and initiatives. It's the kind of leadership that makes things happen.

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

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.

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.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

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

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

John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.

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

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

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

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

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

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.

I want to remind all Americans that the Senate has a very important responsibility to confirm only well- qualified individuals who will faithfully interpret the law and the Constitution.

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

Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution constrains judges every bit as much as it constrains we legislators, executives and citizens in their actions.

Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.

Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.

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.

Some liberal interest groups have come out in full force and have attempted to paint Judge [Samuel] Alito to be an extremist and to be an activist. They've criticized a nominee who has, from what I see described by these lawyers and fellow judges, a reputation of being a restrained jurist committed to the rule of law and the Constitution.

The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

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.

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

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.

Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.

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

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.