James Lankford Quotes
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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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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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As a Christian, Israel has a very special place in my heart. There's no question about that. I grew up with a Bible, and the back of the Bible has all these pictures of Israel in it. And so all these locations are incredibly significant to me personally in my faith.
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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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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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Government on its own is always inefficient.
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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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I'm one of those folks that look and say the Old Testament laid out clearly the path for Christ to come, but when He came, every scholar at that time missed it.
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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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My wife and I come from a Christian worldview.
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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'm very, very pro-defense.
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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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No matter where I travel in the state, people want to talk about education.
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We must go through every area of the federal budget to isolate waste and abandoned projects.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I don't want to go home and tell my wife and my girls, 'I was gone last week because I had to do a press release.'