James Lankford Quotes

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James Lankford

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 4, 1968

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.

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There's a Biblical mandate to reach out to those who are the orphans, the widows in their distress, to take care of the stranger in your land. But that does not mean citizenship.

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Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treated with respect. 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.

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The recent, single-year influx of unaccompanied minors from foreign countries into the United States is a direct result of President Obama's policies of encouraging amnesty and failing to enforce existing immigration laws.

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Government on its own is always inefficient.

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The First Amendment is first for a reason - it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.

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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.

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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.

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Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

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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.

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There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it was just with a 14-year-old.

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My wife and I come from a Christian worldview.

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I keep Reagan's 11th Commandment that I don't run down other Republicans.

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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.

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I'm very, very pro-defense.

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Personally and politically, I'm extremely conservative for who I am, but I'm also very careful in my tone.

James Lankford

I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry.

James Lankford

I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.

James Lankford

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.

James Lankford

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is behavior-related and preference-related, and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

James Lankford