Jeb Hensarling Quotes

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Jeb Hensarling

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 29, 1957

I want to protect consumers from their government.

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The bottom line is the best consumer protections are competitive, innovative markets that are transparent. Now, they need to be vigorously policed for force and fraud, but the agencies that do that need to be accountable.

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The thought of my children growing up in an America with less freedom, less opportunity, and a lower standard of living is a long-term pain I cannot and will not bear.

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The fate of your paycheck, the fate of your small business should not rest on what side of the bed a Washington bureaucrat wakes up on.

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I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise system.

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In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.

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Nothing says 'economic growth' like fundamental tax reform.

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I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.

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We've all heard about Wall Street greed. I think people are now starting to be a little bit more sensitized to Washington greed - the greed for power and control over our lives and our economy.

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You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.

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As a matter of principle, Republicans do not believe in federal price controls.

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There are several different ways we can get at unclogging the arteries of lending in America and helping working people achieve financial independence. Part of that is going to be through executive action. Part of that is going to be through reconciliation.

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Even though I'm a chairman, I don't always get my way.

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I'm always ready to negotiate in good faith with others.

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The easiest thing that is done, unfortunately, in Washington is to spend money today and send the bill to our children and grandchildren.

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The destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey is unlike anything my home state has ever experienced. As long as I live, I'll never forget those images of elderly women waiting in waist-deep water to be rescued.

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Having just one insurance provider for all flood risk in the entire country makes no sense.

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Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices.

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If I live my life thinking that something might not pass the Senate, I would never even get up and bother to go to work.

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