Can we have a serious conversation about improving the integrity of our poverty programs in this country?

I, along with many of my Republican colleagues, believe there is so much more we can do for those who are trapped in our social safety net programs. But we are limited by the level of discourse with which of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are willing to engage.

From the moment Donald Trump was inaugurated, Washington Democrats have been myopically focused on politically targeting his administration and impeaching him.

I am friends with both men, President Trump and Chairman Cummings. I know both men well. Neither man is a racist. Period. Both love America.

The last thing you want to do is go up against someone in your own party and certainly your own president.

Any time you tell the president of the United States you're not there, is it difficult? I would say extremely difficult.

I can tell you that anyone who knows me knows that there is not a racial bone in my body.

Why should we allow a Democrat President in the White House to use executive orders and not do the same with a Republican President?

I've put forth measures that would actually eliminate some of the executive branch power. You know, philosophically, that's where I am.

We have a crisis with a need to secure the border.

When you serve, whether it's here in the House or in the White House or anywhere else, it's a distinct honor and privilege and so that's about the extent of it.

If there's a conservative district and we have a commitment from someone to join the Freedom Caucus, that sends a very strong message.

In all humility, I don't know that an endorsement from Mark Meadows is going to make a difference as much as the commitment of that particular candidate to really represent the people.

The more conservative the district, the more conservative the member should be.

Mo Brooks is serious about making sure we fulfill our campaign promises ,and if anyone is willing to stand up to Leader McConnell on behalf of the people of Alabama it's Mo Brooks.

National security needs to be priority number one and if you're willing to play politics with our national security then you have no business serving in the Senate or the House.

If we've got Democrats, whether they be in the House or the Senate, that are not willing to put our national security as their very top priority and secure our borders, I think it's time that we get someone else in that position and that goes regardless of party.

We continue to send money to the U.N. for countries who are anti-American and anti-Israel - it's got to stop.

I think we need the make sure our border is secure, not just from a standpoint of strategic fencing or border slats, whatever you want to call it, but we need to make sure that once and for all, we secure our border to make sure our communities are safe.

I've found that any time you go against the people's voice you're going up against a tsunami that will have unbelievable power and implications.

One thing that Washington D.C. does not do well is cut spending.

Does anything good happen a couple days before Christmas? Nothing good happens just a few days before Christmas.

The CBO is the only group that makes the weatherman's ten-day forecast look like exact science. They seem to miss their projections with extreme regularity.

I'm very confident in the voice and the power of the American people.

We need to make sure pre-existing conditions are taken care of, but propping up Obamacare, a failing system, is not the way to do it.

Some people like to campaign like a conservative and legislate like a progressive.

Let's keep winning! I love to be exhausted on winning!

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

In Washington, D.C., they don't do real work.

I'm one of these guys who believes you represent the people who sent you to Washington, D.C., not matter what the cost. The cost could be very grave.

Under the Trump presidency we have a unique opportunity to actually roll back regulations, make the economy work, and more importantly make sure that the swamp does not consume Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. is not on the side of mainstream and main street America.

Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.

We want the reading experience of digital comics to be as simple as tapping a tablet or an arrow key or mouse button to move forward or back.

All of us who grew up reading comics love the memory of sitting under an apple tree with a comic book in one hand and a peanut butter sandwich in the other; the tactile sensation of the paper on the skin and so forth is part of the experience.

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.

The problem with most digital comics is that you're simply taking print material and adapting it. It's like reading through a cardboard tube.

We're brought up to believe in a fairytale-romance sort of way that true love is out there and true loves don't care about what you look like and stuff, just what's down inside. And that's probably true, but what's also true, sadly, is that true loves are very rare and very hard to find.

Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.

I genuinely enjoy the puzzle put before me with a crossover - how do I use this bigger piece of the Marvel Universe to tell a character-based tale I wouldn't normally think to tell?

I think there are things that digital can't do as well as print thus far. Even an iPad is only 80% the size of a standard comics page, so the images are going to be smaller. You don't get your big, whopping two-page spreads.

When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.

If you're ruling the world, you can't trust anybody. Because even those who profess to be working in your interest - those are also villains in and of their own right.

I broke into comics by working as a press reporter for the industry, for a trade press in comics, and reporting on events and reporting on books and so forth, and I got to know some of the editors at DC Comics in the mid-'80s.

I do believe that any sort of electromagnetic energy that can be measured beyond the moment of death is, by the definition of energy, eternal. But I cop to the fact that calling it a 'soul' and presuming it sustains our consciousness in any form is, to put it kindly, a leap.

What I've found over the years working on various projects is, you can have a clever book or clever tagline, but there has to be a story to go along with it that leads to something bigger. Something with a little more texture to it.

I think comics are really - superhero comics are at their best and most primal when they're about joy and flying, and about escaping the gravity of the world. But, at the same time, that's not to say all stories should be happy.

The fun of writing established characters is that there's a rich mythology to draw from - you get to play with toys you loved as a kid.

The nice thing about working with BOOM! on 'Irredeemable' and 'Incorruptible,' man, was they let me have my head. No one said boo about anything.

Jan. 26, 1979, was the most important day of my life. Because that's the day that I saw 'Superman: The Movie.' I came out of it knowing that no matter what the rest of my life was going to be like, it had to involve Superman somehow.