Jason Chaffetz Quotes

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Jason Chaffetz

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 26, 1967

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

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What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

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I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.

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My mother, she passed away when I was 28 years old. She fought cancer for more than 10 years. She had breast cancer, and I miss her.

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You tell people that the NFL is a nonprofit entity, and they just start laughing and giggling. But it's not fair.

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Straw purchasing is illegal.

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You know, I think what people want more than anything is they just want people to do what they say they're going to do.

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The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

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I don't have a problem talking about Medicare or Medicaid or some other very important issue.

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A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.

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Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.

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I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.

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My challenge to members on both sides of the aisle is to stand up and have the integrity to say that we have a dead U.S. agent; we have a Department of Justice that lied to Congress.

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I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I think we ought to be cutting more.

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You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

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Federal spending is atrocious.

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If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.

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Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

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Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.

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I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

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