138 Quotes by Charles Grassley

I expect the Judiciary Committee to conduct a fair and dignified hearing in a timely manner, followed by an up or down vote by the Senate.

If you make a promise, you are responsible for your own promise, ... Unfortunately, there are a few ... bad apples who have abused loopholes ... to avoid funding pensions in a way that shows they are responsible for their own promises.

In addition to allowing plans to book phantom investment gains, United was able to use stale, non-market interest rates to value pension liabilities, thereby further disguising funding deficits. In other words, our pension laws tell these companies, 'Take off the green eye shades and put on rose-colored glasses.

If state surveyors are missing serious deficiencies in the quality of care, then the federal government has not yet achieved the necessary level of improvement in oversight of the inspection process.

If something is wrong, it is like locking the barn door after the horse is stolen, ... But we are still going to pursue it. I want to know what they bought with the money.

By starting today to tackle this challenge of the baby boomers we can avoid a crisis.

I am very pessimistic about it in the future, ... Probably the next bite at Social Security will come in 2009.

whatever it takes to get this information out.

I am writing to inform you that I intend to conduct an oversight investigation into allegations that you either quashed or redirected two ongoing criminal investigations last year,