Dan Webster Quotes
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When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
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As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.
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Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
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I would like to give evidence we can lead. And I think the only way we can do that is to unify the diversity of the party.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.
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The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
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You have got to clean your own house first before you tell other people that they aren't doing it right.
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I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.