Top 89 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Flores

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Bill Flores

William Hose Flores Sr. is an American businessman and politician who was the U.S. representative for Texas's 17th congressional district from 2011 to 2021. The district, located in the middle of the state, includes Waco, College Station, and Bryan. He is a member of the Republican Party and the former chief executive officer of Phoenix Exploration Company, an oil and natural gas company. Flores currently serves as Vice Chair of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).

Like tens of millions of Americans, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader.
Going forward, we must continue the fight to change the direction of our country.
By fostering competition, leveling the playing field, and increasing transparency, we can bring America's health care sector into the 21st century. — © Bill Flores
By fostering competition, leveling the playing field, and increasing transparency, we can bring America's health care sector into the 21st century.
The Republican Study Committee was started and has grown to be sure that we create and promote, advance and execute conservative policies for the betterment of hard-working American families.
On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.
Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.
I don't endorse people that bash judges based on his ethnic heritage.
All the issues that have come up under the Obama administration would be continued under Hillary Clinton.
What I'd like to see Donald Trump do is start talking about his vision for leading the country and the policies that he would propose that would help hardworking American families who have struggled through the last few years and then also to differentiate himself from Hillary Clinton.
I would never criticize a federal judge, particularly if I had a court case in front of him, but you would certainly never, ever criticize them based on their ethnic background.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.
I fully recognize we need to improve the path to citizenship, just as we need to value the hard work of folks who become American citizens legally.
Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security. — © Bill Flores
Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.
By trying to advance the perfect conservative solution, nobody wins.
Chet Edwards votes for every bailout and against ending any bailout!
Any agreement with Iran should have strong verification and enforcement safeguards to prevent future cheating.
I am philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age. I misspoke and said I was not philosophically opposed.
If you look at history we've had since I've been in office, in an environment where we haven't had earmarks, we've still been able to get tens of millions of dollars for McLennan County.
If they're committed to the mission statement of the RSC, they're going to be happy with me as their chair. If they're committed to another vision, then they may not be happy with me.
The lack of portability and competition has long been a problem in America's insurance market, yet Obamacare took no significant steps to open up the market between state lines.
Mr. Trump needs to show how he will address the critical issues on the minds of Americans: national security and economic opportunity for hardworking American families. Americans need to see more vision and less trash talk.
We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.
Healthy marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family, and they can raise children in a way that's best for their future, not only socially but psychologically, economically, from a health perspective.
If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.
The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.
I think the comments about me being a shill for leadership are beyond the pale.
I was incredibly angry to see Mr. Trump question a judge's motives because of his ethnicity.
Iran continues to explicitly threaten to destroy the state of Israel, America's most important ally in the region. Its leaders continue to shout, 'Death to America.' If Iran wants to be a part of the world community, it should renounce such statements.
For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
The good thing about Cruz is we know who he is today, and we'll know exactly who he'll be in the White House.
Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.
America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.
I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 because there are just too many Americans that work hard all their lives and just simply physically couldn't work until they are 70.
I will term-limit myself probably before I would have enough seniority to get a committee chairmanship.
A lot of small towns in Texas have only volunteer fire departments. And even though they're called volunteer fire departments, they are usually very professional and have great training and usually have good equipment.
I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.
I want to see the next Reagan. I want somebody who brings out the good in Americans and challenges us to aspire to that North Star, someone who wants to empower our families and individuals and communities and let them be free to achieve their dreams. That's what's going to make this country again.
We've got to have comprehensive tax reform. — © Bill Flores
We've got to have comprehensive tax reform.
If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States... can't fix our Social Security system.
We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.
My gut tells me that the Supreme Court will rule the subsidies to be illegal, and therefore, Obamacare will fail.
We don't know who Donald Trump is.
I haven't done things publicly to hurt conservatives.
I think what we need to do is to have an immigration system where legal immigration is easier.
It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.
It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
I believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover in Congress.
Washington is out of control, and it's time for Texans to stand up and stop them. — © Bill Flores
Washington is out of control, and it's time for Texans to stand up and stop them.
Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disregard of the sanctity of human life. In the meantime, I am relieved that the Bryan abortion facility has gone out of business.
The Obama administration's proposed nuclear deal with Iran endangers the security of our nation and our allies.
Let me tell you what changed my mind: it was when Donald Trump picked Mike Pence to be his running mate. I was convinced that Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew that was rounded out the ticket in many ways.
I'm not philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age... I accept the fact that I may have to raise my retirement age for that.
As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.
What I'd like to do is continue a private sector, free market Main Street types of policies. And those include less regulation. They include a fairer, flatter tax system.
I cannot avoid forgiving everybody that threw a brick at me during my various campaigns, so I think it's important for all of us to bury that and say, 'OK, we need to look forward' - we've got to move forward from 'never Trump' to 'never Hillary.'
Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.
With Obamacare's fate in jeopardy, Democrats have no solutions to solve the mess they forced upon Americans.
I campaigned on being a collaborative leader.
From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.
I've never said anything about privatizing Social Security.
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