Chuck Grassley

“Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.”

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

“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 thin...”

“If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.”

“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 pha...”

“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.”

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

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

“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...”

“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 docum...”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.”

“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 coach...”