Quotes from Jeb Hensarling

Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.

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.

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.

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.

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

In every jurisdictional area that I can get my fingers on, I want to move us away from the Washington insider economy.

Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

I want to protect consumers from their government.

From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.

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.

I do not want America to default on its debt.

Nothing says 'economic growth' like fundamental tax reform.

Every time we've had a pro-growth fundamental tax reform, be it under President Reagan, President Kennedy - you can even go all the way back to President Coolidge - we have seen paychecks increase, economic growth be ignited, and, actually, more revenues come into the government.

If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

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

Frankly, I do like the idea that we centralize consumer protection for financial products into one agency.

After Dodd-Frank, the big banks were bigger. The small banks are fewer.

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

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

Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.

You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.

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.