Top 60 Blake Farenthold Quotes

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.

I’ve got a quad copter on my Christmas list, as I suspect quite a few people do.

I’m committed to voting to repeal Obamacare or defending it as much as possible.

We’ve got the power of the purse in the Congress.

I think that we’re so generous in some of our social problems that people are unwilling to get a job outside in the heat. Rather than get 15 dollars to go get roofing, they’d rather get 9 or 10 dollars in benefits.

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.

I am running on the fact that I am doing a good job listening to people.

I serve and answer to the Texans I represent – not the Hollywood elite.

Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.

I will continue to fight to secure our borders and implement common sense policies aimed at reducing violence and the flow of illegal narcotics, firearms, people, and money across our borders.

In cutting government, we cut a huge variety of programs, a lot of which I would have liked to see increase, and a lot of which I’d like to see decreased more.

Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.

I’m doing a good job in Washington.

I think a fair amount of my votes were ‘not-for-Ortiz,’ votes and I’m going to have to work hard to earn the ‘for Blake’ votes.

I feel like my mandate when I was elected was to go reduce the size of government, lower taxes, and increase freedom, and freedom isn’t free, and sometimes you have to make a small sacrifice to move forward with what you’re after.

Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation’s unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.

With President Obama restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, the immigration preferential treatment given to Cubans… no longer makes sense.

You can’t not approve a merger because you don’t like the companies’ politics. That’s just not right.

Hillary Clinton and her media machine try to dismiss, but anybody who understands anything about how email works – and this is millennials in particular, who grew up on the Internet – know that you’re an idiot to keep sensitive information on a server in your house.

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.

I went in with the youthful vigor that I could single-handedly change the world. But you fast come to the realization that you’re 1/435th of one-half of one-third of the government.

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.

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.

The pro-immigration people are really having a fit saying that I don’t care about the children.

I will support a path to citizenship if it does not fall within the definition of amnesty, and we’ve got to define what amnesty is in this country.

Nobody in the Washington regulatory bureaucracy gets fired for saying no.

If I were to leave Congress and want to start Farenthold TV, it would be very difficult. The fewer players there are, the fewer the opportunities to build a big enough audience to get on.

There is no Republican out there who wants a Hillary Clinton presidency.

Everybody wants to help folks out. But we’ve got a system where you can stay on unemployment for an awfully long time. And I think we need to create a system of decreasing benefits over time to encourage you to get a job.

I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.

‘Those people’ is a bad word.

I’m still on the Trump train.

How is having every phone call that I make to my wife, to my daughter, relevant to any terror investigation?

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.

We can’t get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.

Why should guns be treated different than toasters? If your defective product injures somebody, you’re responsible for it.

I think anybody who’s had an alcoholic in their life, or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough, there’s no incentive to change.

Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress’ ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people’s attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president’s attorney and he’ll do anything to defend the president.

I understand that, for some, everything is political.

It’s about going to where your voters are.

Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have left the U.S. with better relations with Iran and Cuba and worse relations with allies like Israel.

I cannot ignore this reality, and I encourage my all colleagues to join me in this fight to end modern day slavery in our own backyard.

The census should not be political.

As much as I hate to say it, what I’m coming to realize is that all we’re really able to do is put the brakes on. Imagine going real fast in a Flintstones car, and my heel is out there. I went to Washington to change the world, and all I can do is put my heel out.

Sometimes you’ve got to make a hard decision, and there’s a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington.

Every member of Congress has highways in their district.

Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs – I really think that’s something that needs to be considered.

I actually enjoy having the Capitol view. We started referring to it as the trillion dollar view.

I’m a Texan – my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.

I think there are several departments we could completely get rid of, and we wouldn’t miss it.

In an urban area, you’re not going to be an hour away from another post office.

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.

Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?

If you are just using the service to look at Web sites and download e-mail, then a DSL line may be cheaper. It is when you have more data going out that wireless can make a difference.

The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials’ bad behavior.

I’ve already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.

I think there’s no problem getting through the House a pathway to legal status. A pathway to citizenship is going to be tougher, but I think it is potentially doable, if we can show the American people that the border is secure.

What message do we send to America if we impeach Obama and he gets away?

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.

We all want to raise our children well.