Quotes from Dave Brat

If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care costs, and it's a huge part of our economy.

Fannie and Freddie made two-thirds of all subprime mortgages. That is not a free market institution. That entity, along with the Fed printing too much money back in '03 and '04, caused the housing collapse. So we need to take free markets seriously. That means we have to put an end to all these tax credits and tax deductions and loopholes.

China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.

I'm a Ph.D. in economics, and so you analyze every situation uniquely because every international situation is unique.

The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every social program under the sun via majority rule.

If we make all of the people good, markets will be good. If markets are bad, which they are, that means people are bad, which they are. Want good markets? Change the people.

Everyone's for free markets except when it affects your own business.

I'm not anti-Wall Street - I'm anti-distortions to free markets.