Blake Farenthold Quotes
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Every member of Congress has highways in their district.
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I think a fair amount of my votes were 'not-for-Ortiz,' votes and I'm going to have to work hard to earn the 'for Blake' votes.
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I understand that, for some, everything is political.
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I am running on the fact that I am doing a good job listening to people.
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I think it's really tough being in Donald Trump's shoes, when you've got the media looking to put the worst possible spin to everything that you say.
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We need to be talking about things like the DREAM Act. We need to also be talking about e-verify. We also need to be talking about border security.
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Nobody in the Washington regulatory bureaucracy gets fired for saying no.
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In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld President Obama's overreaching mandate that forces every American to purchase health insurance or face a fine.
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I will support a path to citizenship if it does not fall within the definition of amnesty, and we've got to define what amnesty is in this country.
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You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.
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The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?
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As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.
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The census should not be political.
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I'm committed to voting to repeal Obamacare or defending it as much as possible.
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In cutting government, we cut a huge variety of programs, a lot of which I would have liked to see increase, and a lot of which I'd like to see decreased more.
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My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.
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'Those people' is a bad word.
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I serve and answer to the Texans I represent - not the Hollywood elite.
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We all went up to Washington on a mission to change things. What I found is that the Founding Fathers set it up where it's a little more difficult to do. We've got the Senate and the president to deal with.
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Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
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I'm doing a good job in Washington.
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I sit on the House Judiciary Committee, where we've been actively working on concrete solutions to fix our nation's immigration policy, piece-by-piece.
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I think there's no problem getting through the House a pathway to legal status. A pathway to citizenship is going to be tougher, but I think it is potentially doable, if we can show the American people that the border is secure.
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Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.