Tom Coburn

The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars…

The death penalty "is a deterrent that does affect and impact people."

"Oregon is spending $10 million advertising Obamacare with ads that don’t even mention the program and how to enroll in it" and that don’t "mention…

"In 2010, everybody said you can't dare let guns go into the national parks, and of course the rapes, murders, robberies and assaults are down…

"The government's twice the size it was 10 years ago. It's 30 percent bigger than it was when (Barack) Obama became president."

"One in 19 Americans today get SSDI or SSI. That's one in 19 Americans (who) are disabled."

There are "10 or 20 deaths a year from foodborne illness" in the United States.

"The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff."

"Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to…

"Under the Obama plan . . . all the health care in this country is eventually going to be run by the government."