79 Quotes by Mike Lee

Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying and I've been saying this for six months.

The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.

Limited government must come politically, not judicially.

I’m nobody’s deputy. I am who I am. I’m my own person.

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It’s a form of taxation without representation. I don’t think we can do that.

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I’ve ever heard about.

I don’t want a government shutdown. I don’t think anyone does.

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.

When you have a country that’s been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.