Top 55 John Barrasso Quotes

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Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means.
John Barrasso
Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
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I’m somebody’s who’s in favor of transparency and openness.
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I was in the state Senate in Wyoming, and we actually legislated. We offered amendments on bills and voted on things.
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Each and every day, more people pay the price of Obamacare’s mountain of mandates. As I travel across the country, I continue to hear from Americans who want Washington to take its hands off of their healthcare.
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Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.
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The EPA’s climate change regulations are based on compromised scientific reports and heavily flawed data.
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President Obama wants a climate deal and is willing to pay dearly to get it.
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Russia’s actions in Syria are not the only reasons to distrust Mr. Putin. Moscow has opposed attempts by the U.N. in November 2011 to increase sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear program.
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The Russians continue to say that they’ll still go after terrorists, but that’s a very elastic term. They’re going after anybody they want. I don’t trust them.
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As a doctor who took care of patients for 25 years, I saw the problems with America’s health care system every day.
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Humans are contributing to additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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The EPA has a history of overreaching its authority.
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We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken.
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For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.
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The Obama administration has already imposed burdensome regulations – for instance, the sprawling Clean Power Plan aimed at wiping out the coal industry – that will raise the cost of energy and put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work.
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ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance.
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I’m a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.
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As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama’s unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.
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Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.
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Energy is called ‘the master resource’ for a reason.
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As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.
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The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.
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We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That’s what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.
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For people who don’t know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I’ve been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.
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Americans want real solutions and good jobs.
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What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.
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You want to continue with the social safety net: the good, the bad and the ugly parts of that, you have to have a vibrant economy. You have to have growth of the economy.
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The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground – the elected officials – to make those decisions.
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The whole future, I think, of Wyoming and the economy has to do with coal and our clean coal technology, and we’re going to have the ability here in Wyoming to deal with all of the things of this so-called climate change.
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Obamacare is, ‘Patient, heal yourself.’
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In an agreement with China, President Obama has already

In an agreement with China, President Obama has already pledged to reduce America’s net greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 25% by 2025. In return, China has agreed to ‘peak’ its carbon-dioxide emissions in 2030.
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We can’t have a third Obama term, which is what electing Hillary Clinton would do.
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States that scrap their state-run Obamacare exchanges are admitting they’ve wasted millions of dollars in federal grants. It’s only fair that states have to pay American taxpayers and the federal government back for their total incompetence.
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Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.
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We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.
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When the president decides that he knows better than you know what’s good for you or your family, we’ve got trouble in this country.
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The states ought to be the ones making the decisions about the individual mandate, the employer mandate, all of the different requirements of what kind of insurance people have to have.
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I’ve been calling for the support of the Syrian rebels for years.
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I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who has taken care of Medicare patients, we can make it a lot better.
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I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.
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Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country’s immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.
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The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.
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An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.
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The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama’s health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.
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Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.
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Keystone would allow us to transport 700,000 barrels of oil a day from our northern neighbor Canada to refineries in the United States.
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The priority is to put bills on the president’s desk that will move the country forward.
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I’m telling you, as a doctor who spent about half of his time in the office taking care of our seniors on Medicare, it is a program that intentions to work are much better than the way it’s working today in terms of practicality.
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Everywhere I travel around my home state of Wyoming – but also around the country – I continue to hear, ‘How can Washington make us buy something we don’t want to buy, a product? They can’t tell us to buy breakfast cereal or something else – how can they do that?’
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I don’t want anybody between a doctor and a patient – not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.
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As the 2016 presidential race kicks off, candidates on both sides of the aisle are promising to stand up for the middle class. Voters deserve to know that anyone who champions Obamacare cannot honestly say she or he is also a champion of middle-class Americans.
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I haven’t changed any of my investments since I’ve been in the Senate and haven’t purchased any stocks since I’ve been in the Senate.
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I’m fortunate to live in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful, pristine places in the world.
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Families will now have to prove to the IRS that they have Washington-approved and government-mandated insurance.
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