Blake Farenthold Quotes

Blake Farenthold

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 12, 1961

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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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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The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?

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Every member of Congress has highways in their district.

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

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

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

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

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I understand that, for some, everything is political.

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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.

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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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'Those people' is a bad word.

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

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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.

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I did vote to defund the Obama program that defers deporting the so-called DREAMers, because that was the president's decision, and the president shouldn't unilaterally get to decide what laws to enforce or not enforce.

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

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

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The census should not be political.

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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.

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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.

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