Quotes from Chuck Grassley

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can't answer for anybody else.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.

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.

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

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.

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.

I think that less presidential interference the better.

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.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?

Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

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.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.