James Lankford Quotes
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My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn't mean I have to shout at people.
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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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The only way to make government more efficient is to make it smaller and to make it more local.
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I'm very, very pro-defense.
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When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.
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Government on its own is always inefficient.
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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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I keep Reagan's 11th Commandment that I don't run down other Republicans.
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Broken families not only affect the people involved, but they have an impact on public policy decisions in Washington, D.C., and state capitols around the nation.
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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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We must go through every area of the federal budget to isolate waste and abandoned projects.
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No matter where I travel in the state, people want to talk about education.
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I see myself as more of a student, that I love to get down into the weeds of different problems and try to go through that. I don't mind messaging, but I'm going to default back to the research side of things.
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The different Washington, D.C.-based groups and the different special interest groups, they all want to be able to pick who they want to be a senator. They don't speak for everyone, and they definitely don't speak for Oklahomans.
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I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.
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What I love to do is the policy. The politics, I'm brand-new at.
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Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.
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We have a very structured process for taking in refugees. It takes almost two years to transition from another country into the United States through the refugee process.
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I find it completely irrational to say someone who stands up for life for children is taking the life of adult. It's completely inconsistent with the values of the pro-life movement that are very passionate about protecting life, not taking life.
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My wife and I come from a Christian worldview.
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I'm in favor of dealing with Iran and dealing with the nuclear issue, but I'm not in favor of a bad deal.
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We're facing serious issues. We can either complain about it or try to step in and solve it.
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I believe that being conservative means you try to get in to the middle of the fight and try to solve the problem.