Blake Farenthold Quotes
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I am running on the fact that I am doing a good job listening to people.
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As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do is put the brakes on. Imagine going real fast in a Flintstones car, and my heel is out there. I went to Washington to change the world, and all I can do is put my heel out.
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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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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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I understand that, for some, everything is political.
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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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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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Nobody in the Washington regulatory bureaucracy gets fired for saying no.
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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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You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.
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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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The census should not be political.
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'Those people' is a bad word.
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I'm committed to voting to repeal Obamacare or defending it as much as possible.
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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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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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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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I serve and answer to the Texans I represent - not the Hollywood elite.
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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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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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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'm doing a good job in Washington.
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The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.
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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.