Dave Brat Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“I take policy seriously; I'm not just trying to be a political hack.”

“I want to be Eric Cantor's term limit.”

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

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

“The only problem with Republican principles is no one's following them.”

“All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights... Our founding documents make it clear that our inalienable rights come from God and that the job of the government is to ensure and protect those God-given rights.”

“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.”

“I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.”

“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.”