Quotes by Blake Farenthold

Blake Farenthold

American politician and lobbyist

Lived from: 1961 -

Category: Politics

Born: 12 december 1961

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  • It's said that you can tell a lot about someone by who opposes them. In the case of liberal pundit Bill Maher - a man who called America's actions cowardly in the wake of 9/11 and who mocked WWII veterans who wanted to visit the monument built in their honor - I wear his disapproval of me as a badge of honor.
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  • My constituents feel betrayed by the promise that Reagan made, that if we grant amnesty, we'll then secure the border. We obviously didn't do that.
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  • My deal is you start as far to the right as you can get, and go to the conference committee with the Senate, and hopefully end up with something you can live with.
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  • My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.
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  • My subcommittee will be thoroughly investigating this issue and demanding answers from Census officials on allegations that the Census Bureau is changing the wording of survey questions used to determine our nation's annual report on health insurance coverage.
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  • Nobody likes to make a hard decision, because you're running every two years.
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  • One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.
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  • Sometimes you've got to make a hard decision, and there's a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington.
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  • The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.
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  • The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?
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  • The pro-immigration people are really having a fit saying that I don't care about the children.
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  • The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.
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  • We all went up to Washington on a mission to change things. What I found is that the Founding Fathers set it up where it's a little more difficult to do. We've got the Senate and the president to deal with.
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  • We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.
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  • We have testimony saying, and I think common sense also dictates, that in a failed state like Syria, you don't have any government information, police reports to rely on to vet somebody. So there's no way to do a background check from somebody coming out of Syria. There's no way we can find out whether they're safe or not.
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  • We need to be talking about things like the DREAM Act. We need to also be talking about e-verify. We also need to be talking about border security.
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  • With President Obama restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, the immigration preferential treatment given to Cubans... no longer makes sense.
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  • You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.
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  • You turn on the TV, and you hear all these guys: 'Republican Party in disarray. Turmoil in Washington.' I don't think that's the case.
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  • You've got to do the same sort of outreach to Hispanics that you do to any other group. They want to see their congressman.
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