James Lankford Quotes
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Quite frankly, Oklahomans are pretty smart. They know how to choose candidates.
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There is only one person in the State Department that can sign off on State Department personnel being in a facility that doesn't meet security standards, and it's the secretary of state.
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Personally and politically, I'm extremely conservative for who I am, but I'm also very careful in my tone. I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry. I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.
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Americans honor and respect each other's faith, and we honor those that choose to have no faith.
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Christmas is a great time to recommit to each other and our communities.
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Centralized national decision-making on education reduces the role of the parent and the local districts.
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It's ironic, isn't it, that one day you're one of the most conservative members, and then some individual gets mad at you, and they decide to throw millions of dollars against you because you didn't vote exactly the way they want every day.
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There's a Biblical mandate to reach out to those who are the orphans, the widows in their distress, to take care of the stranger in your land. But that does not mean citizenship.
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There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it was just with a 14-year-old.
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We've overmedicated kids. Quite frankly, some of the overmedication of kids are because welfare moms want to get additional benefits, and if they can put them on SSI through maintenance drugs, they can also put them on Social Security disability and get a separate check. That is wrong on every single level.
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If we care about life and the dignity of all life, then we care about the dignity of all life, and that includes the human life of children.
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I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry.
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I think people see the social media numbers, and the assumption is made that we're running a campaign that is just social media, but I think we're running a very old-school campaign.
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I am a fan of an all-of-the-above energy strategy, and I certainly support wind as a large part of that goal.
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Assad has to go. I mean, the way that ISIS can recruit, and the rebels that are in the north, and all the chaos that's happening through a lot of Syria circles around a lot of people that do not like Assad.
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What they have done, ISIS is very well outspoken about how much they hate our freedom, who we are as Americans.
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If you are going to replace somebody off of one of the bills - which I have no problem with a lady being on one of the bills - that you would replace the 20.
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President Obama and I disagree on policy with Israel. He seems to say... 'We want peace, but we want to act like Switzerland. We're going to be a neutral party to everyone.' I think that's negotiating from weakness.
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Assad has to be removed, and then you have to actually put someone in that is a qualified leader that can start to build some trust in that area.
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Religion that is contained only within a church building is a weekend hobby, not a personal faith.
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There is a way for the IRS to be able to have a double check to make sure individuals don't file on your Social Security number early and try to get a tax return and make it chaotic for you to file your own taxes. That's not been done.
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The vast majority of Americans believe you don't discriminate. You don't. We honor each other. We don't all see life the same way. We don't. We're Americans.
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Al Qaeda likes to coordinate, have a central command to be able to send out emissaries around that they have highly trained and say, 'This is the moment we're going to do a large-scale attack.'
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The only way to make government more efficient is to make it smaller and to make it more local.