Chuck Grassley

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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