James Lankford Quotes

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James Lankford

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 4, 1968

Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.

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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.

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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.

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I still strongly support a full repeal of Obamacare.

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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.

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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.

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The number of fighters that are ISIS fighters wouldn't fill up most American football stadiums. This is not a large group of individuals, but they're tenacious, and they rule with absolute terror.

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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.

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I see myself as more of a student, that I love to get down into the weeds of different problems and try to go through that. I don't mind messaging, but I'm going to default back to the research side of things.

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We have a very structured process for taking in refugees. It takes almost two years to transition from another country into the United States through the refugee process.

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It's very difficult for the family members of ICE agents, and it's very difficult for ICE agents to know what's right and what's wrong and why should I get engaged and go out there and enforce the law when I don't know what it means any more to have consequences.

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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.

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When a president makes up law as he goes, no one knows what the law is anymore.

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The Constitution provides that all Americans enjoy the right to live a life in accordance with their convictions of faith.

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President Obama and I disagree on policy with Israel. He seems to say... 'We want peace, but we want to act like Switzerland. We're going to be a neutral party to everyone.' I think that's negotiating from weakness.

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I'm in favor of dealing with Iran and dealing with the nuclear issue, but I'm not in favor of a bad deal.

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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.

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What I love to do is the policy. The politics, I'm brand-new at.

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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.'

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No matter where I travel in the state, people want to talk about education.

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