Blake Farenthold Quotes
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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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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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Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.
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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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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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I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.
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I cannot ignore this reality, and I encourage my all colleagues to join me in this fight to end modern day slavery in our own backyard.
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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've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.
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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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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've already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.
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What message do we send to America if we impeach Obama and he gets away?
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The government was built on compromising. And it's frustrating as hell.
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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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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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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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We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.
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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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It's about going to where your voters are.
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You've got to do the same sort of outreach to Hispanics that you do to any other group. They want to see their congressman.
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We all want to raise our children well.
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There is no Republican out there who wants a Hillary Clinton presidency.
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One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.