Chuck Grassley's Quotes

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.

When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed.

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.

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.

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.

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

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

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

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

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

I think that less presidential interference the better.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.

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.

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

Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?