Words matter. These are the best James Lankford Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Certainly, every student and school ought to have standards and evaluation, but who sets those standards, and who writes the test? Whoever controls the test controls the school.
Every person is also a citizen of some country. In their country, they have rights and responsibilities. In every other country, they are a guest.
This is why it’s bad to run a country by executive order: because our nation runs on laws – when everyone knows the law, and everyone knows what it is, you know both the law and the consequence, and you get that.
The wind industry has made major strides over the past two decades, and they have proven their industry to be efficient and self-sustainable. There is no need for the taxpayer to continue to subsidize a wind start-up tax credit.
I am a fan of an all-of-the-above energy strategy, and I certainly support wind as a large part of that goal.
Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.
The First Amendment is first for a reason – it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.
If you are going to replace somebody off of one of the bills – which I have no problem with a lady being on one of the bills – that you would replace the 20.
I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.
Religion that is contained only within a church building is a weekend hobby, not a personal faith.
I don’t want to go home and tell my wife and my girls, ‘I was gone last week because I had to do a press release.’
I don’t believe just because you’re a conservative that you’re angry.
Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.
Quite frankly, Oklahomans are pretty smart. They know how to choose candidates.
There is only one person in the State Department that can sign off on State Department personnel being in a facility that doesn’t meet security standards, and it’s the secretary of state.
Al Qaeda likes to coordinate, have a central command to be able to send out emissaries around that they have highly trained and say, ‘This is the moment we’re going to do a large-scale attack.’
What I love to do is the policy. The politics, I’m brand-new at.
We’ve overmedicated kids. Quite frankly, some of the overmedication of kids are because welfare moms want to get additional benefits, and if they can put them on SSI through maintenance drugs, they can also put them on Social Security disability and get a separate check. That is wrong on every single level.
I just don’t believe that being conservative means all you do is throw stones and poke people in the eye.
Christmas is a great time to recommit to each other and our communities.
There is no one leader that’s going to unify all of Syria that suddenly everyone is going to go, ‘Yes, that’s a logical place.’ They’re not unified. They don’t have a setup succession like we do in the United States.
We have two programs dealing with bulletproof vests, two different systems of actually distributing bulletproof vests from the federal government. Two sets of applications, two different sets of personnel to approve those applications.
The Health Care Compact simply gives a state like Oklahoma the option to create a customized system that better meets the needs of Oklahoma families.
Government on its own is always inefficient.
We must go through every area of the federal budget to isolate waste and abandoned projects.
We’re facing serious issues. We can either complain about it or try to step in and solve it.
The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus.
I’m not a ‘messiah’ coming to change Washington. I don’t come with a political background, so I think it’s part of my responsibility to raise my hand and say ‘Why?’ Folks don’t just want smaller government; they want an efficient small government.
I keep Reagan’s 11th Commandment that I don’t run down other Republicans.
It’s ironic, isn’t it, that one day you’re one of the most conservative members, and then some individual gets mad at you, and they decide to throw millions of dollars against you because you didn’t vote exactly the way they want every day.
At times, conservatives become defined by their volume rather than by their ideas.
One of the hardest areas is duplication; everyone knows there’s lots of duplication in government. But when you ask someone, ‘OK, name two programs that are duplicative,’ typically there’s a long pause.
The future of our nation is dependent on the future of our families.
Assad has to be removed, and then you have to actually put someone in that is a qualified leader that can start to build some trust in that area.
My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn’t mean I have to shout at people.
The vast majority of Americans believe you don’t discriminate. You don’t. We honor each other. We don’t all see life the same way. We don’t. We’re Americans.
Hillary Clinton has her own issues with just her own arrogance as a leader; that has been well known for a long time.
The different Washington, D.C.-based groups and the different special interest groups, they all want to be able to pick who they want to be a senator. They don’t speak for everyone, and they definitely don’t speak for Oklahomans.
Personally and politically, I’m extremely conservative for who I am, but I’m also very careful in my tone. I don’t believe just because you’re a conservative that you’re angry. I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.
The Health Care Compact is a way for states to protect their residents from the top-down, one-size-fits-all health care ‘solutions’ that have been imposed from Washington D.C., including Obamacare.
Broken families not only affect the people involved, but they have an impact on public policy decisions in Washington, D.C., and state capitols around the nation.
The Congressional Prayer Caucus has worked successfully to advocate for and protect values that are fundamental to the fabric of our nation, and I’m honored to serve as co-chairman.
I find it completely irrational to say someone who stands up for life for children is taking the life of adult. It’s completely inconsistent with the values of the pro-life movement that are very passionate about protecting life, not taking life.
We basically ran the Henry Bellmon campaign.
There is a way for the IRS to be able to have a double check to make sure individuals don’t file on your Social Security number early and try to get a tax return and make it chaotic for you to file your own taxes. That’s not been done.
Let’s set aside our political and ideological differences and take a moment to love our families, hug our children, parents and grandparents and through love and respect, strengthen the bonds that made us the greatest nation on Earth.
I am proud to join the many state legislators, governors, businessmen and hard-working Americans who have worked to build support and momentum for the idea of the Health Care Compact, and I am proud to introduce the common-sense bill for this sensible solution.
The Constitution provides that all Americans enjoy the right to live a life in accordance with their convictions of faith.
I think people see the social media numbers, and the assumption is made that we’re running a campaign that is just social media, but I think we’re running a very old-school campaign.
I believe that being conservative means you try to get in to the middle of the fight and try to solve the problem.
Every generation has to protect every one of their rights, whether that’s freedom of the press, freedom of speech, or freedom of faith. You have to remain diligent.
We have a lot of great hospitals in America, across the country.
You talk about leading Republicans. That’s no easy task on just like you were trying to lead Democrats on the other side. We all have independent thoughts and independent ideas.
For the millions of Americans, like my family, who believe that there is a creator God who can be known personally, Christmas is a celebration of Jesus’ offer of love and forgiveness for all people.
No matter where I travel in the state, people want to talk about education.
I understand the significance of being one of 18 senators in Oklahoma history.
When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.
Americans honor and respect each other’s faith, and we honor those that choose to have no faith.
Assad has to go. I mean, the way that ISIS can recruit, and the rebels that are in the north, and all the chaos that’s happening through a lot of Syria circles around a lot of people that do not like Assad.
America is strongest when families take care of each other and walk with one another through need and loss.
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