Words matter. These are the best Pete Gallego Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the flag.
Obama’s very unpopular. I don’t need a poll to tell me that.
California – with more cars, more drivers and more people – still has less DWI-related deaths than Texas does.
A lawmaker cannot be pro-sequester while also purporting to be pro-national security or supportive of a strong economy.
Sequestration will make it extremely challenging – and in many cases impossible – for employees to meet their mortgage payments, pay their healthcare expenses, plan for retirement, or help their children attend college. To be blunt, these families are at risk.
This is pool. This is setting up your next shot, and I always want to make sure when we’re setting up San Antonio’s next shot we have a good shot at making sure that we continue to build our infrastructure in such a way that San Antonio will be a player for years to come in national defense issues.
In the old way of doing business, it was fine to disagree and then go to dinner. Now it’s personal and more partisan, and a disagreement on one issue leads to a disagreement on another issue.
I learned long ago you run unopposed, or you run scared.
I think ‘immigration’ is a bad word for many Republicans.
It’s important we understand our system seeks justice and not revenge.
When the law says you’re entitled to an attorney, it doesn’t mean you’re entitled to an attorney who sleeps or an attorney who doesn’t do his job.
It’s tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.
I saw how hard my parents worked, and I didn’t want to be a freeloader.
It’s always bothersome when California does something better than Texas.
People don’t have the opportunity to be larger than life anymore – they’re afraid of seeing it on the Internet.
You want to empower people who think like you do.
For me, the issue is if I’m your advocate, if I’m your representative, my job is to stand up for you and talk about you and defend you.
A robust democracy requires active participation.
I have never been in favor of gay marriage, and I am not in favor of gay marriage.
It takes a certain personality to thrive as a member of the House.
My family never took vacations; we never traveled together. We never did anything. My spring breaks were going home to help my dad at the restaurant.
The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past – or even the present.
I like having a battleground district because I think that’s real-life America.
It’s a lack of respect for the community when you’re not willing to debate because it’s the ‘wrong’ network.
Here’s the thing about Texas – and the thing about the border. We all know undocumented immigrants. They sit in our churches, are friends with our children, and work all around us. They are just like us.
I was impressed by the capability and talent and intellect of our troops on the ground. These kids are really impressive.
There’s this fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party, and until that fight gets settled – because they’re the majority – there’s a lot of things that are pretty much on hold.
We must work for a solution to address the senseless cuts that hurt our border, our economy, and our country.
I think it becomes incumbent upon a candidate to essentially disavow some of the things that are in that party platform. Otherwise, I think the assumption is that you are a true believer.
Frankly, no issue is worth shutting down the government and denying pay to those committed to public service.
We all want our border to be secure. However, certain individuals use this argument to stop us from ever enacting immigration reform.
Because fossil fuels are not only a finite resource but hazardous to the environment, it is imperative that we diversify the resources used in generating electricity.
One of the things that ties people together, whether they live in a rural or urban area, is the really big number of people who have served in the military. Veterans issues are very important in the district.
The luxury for me is that I’ve spent already several millions of dollars across the district getting people to know who I am… So, my name ID is really, really high.
I don’t have the luxury of just hanging out in my primary and, once I win the primary, I’m fine. I have to talk to Democrats and Republicans.
We’ve made our living for a long time on commerce and trade at the border.
Congress is more broken than ever. Congressman Will Hurd has quickly become part of the problem.
Our challenge is to stop people from driving drunk. Punishing them afterwards doesn’t bring back the victim or make the family feel better. The idea is to stop the DWI before it happens.
It was in the best interests of Zavala and other counties that we move forward with a farm bill and provide certainty to ranchers, farmers, food banks, and other providers.
HB 2 leaves 90% of the children behind. The disconnect between this bill and the basic needs of Texas schoolchildren is appalling.
