Top 48 Grassley Quotes
#1. I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can't answer for anybody else.
Chuck Grassley
#2. I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County. I don't think Sen. Grassley had that life experience. It's just a simple difference of who we are and where we've come from.
Bruce Braley
#3. I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.
Chuck Grassley
#4. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#5. If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.
Chuck Grassley
#6. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#7. President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
Chuck Grassley
#8. We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.
Chuck Grassley
#9. Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.
Chuck Grassley
#10. I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.
Chuck Grassley
#11. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#13. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#14. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#15. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#16. If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.
Chuck Grassley
#17. In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.
Chuck Grassley
#18. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#19. Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
Chuck Grassley
#20. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#22. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#23. My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.
Chuck Grassley
#24. All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN
Chuck Grassley
#25. Gifted students represent a vital resource that has unlimited potential. We need to make sure that these exceptional young people have the support and services they need to be successful.
Chuck Grassley
#26. I think that less presidential interference the better.
Chuck Grassley
#27. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#28. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#29. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#30. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#31. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#32. Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities
Chuck Grassley
#33. If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.
Chuck Grassley
#34. Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.
Chuck Grassley
#35. Judge [Samuel] Alito enjoys the support and respect of the people who work with him, practice with him and, therefore, know him best.
Chuck Grassley
#36. Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.
Chuck Grassley
#37. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?
Chuck Grassley
#38. I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.
Chuck Grassley
#39. Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.
Chuck Grassley
#40. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#41. The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.
Chuck Grassley
#42. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#43. It wouldn't do me much good to back somebody that won in Iowa if they can't carry on the campaign elsewhere.
Chuck Grassley
#44. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#45. 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.
Chuck Grassley
#46. Judges are required by our democratic system not to overstep their positions to become policy makers or super-legislators.
Chuck Grassley
#47. 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.
Chuck Grassley
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