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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. "

Blake Farenthold

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I understand that, for some, everything is political. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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Criminal Justice

" It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty. "

Blake Farenthold

" Every member of Congress has highways in their district. "

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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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" I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry. "

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" Nobody likes to make a hard decision, because you're running every two years. "

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

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" As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer. "

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" I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else. "

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

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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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" Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways. "

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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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" 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. "

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Change The World