"We have to make America the best place in the world for people to do business, to invest and to innovate. And one of the ways we can do that is by reforming our tax code to become a pro-investment tax code, a pro-growth tax code."

"The second phase of something that both Mike Lee and I have worked on and will continue to talk about is we need entitlement reforms in America to save Medicare and Social Security and to bring our long-term debt under control.  But you cannot cut your way out of our current predicament; you need growth to accompany it, and this is the first step in that process.  This is a growth plan."