Chuck Grassley famous quotes

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

#Children #Learning #School

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

#Years #Trying

I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.
-- Chuck Grassley

#Makers #Lawmakers #Policy

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

#Party #Four #Republican

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

#Suicide #Apology #Cases

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

#Iowa #Campaigns #Elsewhere

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

#Law #Goal #Reform

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
-- Chuck Grassley

#Decision #Advice #President

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.
-- Chuck Grassley

#Running #Platforms

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

#Doctors #Advice #Drug

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

#People #Parent #Drug

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

#Believe #Have Faith #Littles

I'm worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, .. When I hear about leaders of charities being provided a $300,000 Bentley to drive around in, my fear is that it's the taxpayers who subsidize this charity who are really being taken for a ride.
-- Chuck Grassley

#Taken #People #Leader

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

#Successful #People #Support

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN
-- Chuck Grassley

#Tunes #Bills #Week

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

#Answers #Chuck

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

#Believe #I Believe #Individual

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

#People #Debt

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

#Running #Government #Waste

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.
-- Chuck Grassley

#Nuts #Political #United States

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

#Drug #United States #Would Be

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

#Issues #Drug #Competition

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.
-- Chuck Grassley

#Home #Should #Tractors

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

#Grandma #Government #Program

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

#Hyperinflation #Feds #Ability

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.
-- Chuck Grassley

#Hurt #Complacency #Taxpayers

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

#Airports #Iowa #Community

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

#Couple #Moving #Way

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.
-- Chuck Grassley

#Integrity #Drug #Secret

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

#Integrity #Law #Giving

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.
-- Chuck Grassley

#Keys #Debacles #Findings

Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won't be tolerated.
-- Chuck Grassley

#Law #Justice #Pockets