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I will continue to fight to secure our borders and implement common sense policies aimed at reducing violence and the flow of illegal narcotics, firearms, people, and money across our borders.
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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've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.
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Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.
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I'm doing a good job in Washington.
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Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.
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I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.
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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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Running on the pledge to end two wars, President Obama has the country entangled in three: Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and that doesn't include the American's foray into Libya.
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How is having every phone call that I make to my wife, to my daughter, relevant to any terror investigation?
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What message do we send to America if we impeach Obama and he gets away?
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It's said that you can tell a lot about someone by who opposes them. In the case of liberal pundit Bill Maher - a man who called America's actions cowardly in the wake of 9/11 and who mocked WWII veterans who wanted to visit the monument built in their honor - I wear his disapproval of me as a badge of honor.
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We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.
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It's about going to where your voters are.
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If I were to leave Congress and want to start Farenthold TV, it would be very difficult. The fewer players there are, the fewer the opportunities to build a big enough audience to get on.
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It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.
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Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?
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The government was built on compromising. And it's frustrating as hell.
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I think that we're so generous in some of our social problems that people are unwilling to get a job outside in the heat. Rather than get 15 dollars to go get roofing, they'd rather get 9 or 10 dollars in benefits.
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I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.
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There is no Republican out there who wants a Hillary Clinton presidency.
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In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.
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I actually enjoy having the Capitol view. We started referring to it as the trillion dollar view.
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The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.