Dan Webster Quotes
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Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?
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I'm a homing pigeon. When I'm in Tallahassee, I give everything I have to being, hopefully, the best legislator I can be. When I'm home, I'm home. I try to not do legislative stuff. That brings a balance to life.
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We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.
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My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.
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I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
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We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
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I was Speaker of the House in Florida, first Republican speaker in 120 years. And I totally dismantled the way this House worked and turned it around to what I believe is right.
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If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.
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Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.
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We've got to prove that we can lead, and I'm going to be all-in to help prove that.
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What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.
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I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.
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I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.
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I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.
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The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.
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If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.
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I'm a plodder, not a planner.
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The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.
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If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.
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Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.