Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Chris Collins

I myself am going to try to tone down some of my rhetoric, and I would invite my Democrat friends - and they are friends - to do likewise.

I do believe that a law-abiding citizen that is armed, that's out in public, will keep himself, his staff, and, in some cases, the public safe.

For those that invested in Innate, including me, we all were sophisticated investors who were aware of the inherent risk.

Mr. Trump is a chief executive in the private setting of a very complex business.

I've had a carry permit for 30 years, and I would say off and on in different instances where I have, you know, felt it was appropriate, I would carry the weapon on myself.

The energy behind Mr. Trump is just off the charts. This is a rank and file movement that you're seeing, with massive turnouts from New Hampshire down to Mississippi, Alabama. I mean, his supporters are representative of the entire country.

We have to defeat Hillary Clinton, or the country we know will not be the country our children and grandchildren grow up in.

When an illegal vote is cast for president, that illegal vote is also cast for a city councilman.

We should know who's walking into the voting booth, and I would support anything we do to make sure that our elections are secure, that it's only citizens voting.

I can only hope that the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric. The rhetoric has been outrageous: The finger-pointing, the tone, the angst, and the anger directed at Donald Trump, his supporters - really, then, some people react to things like that; people get angry as well, and you fuel the fires.

I've said all along we need a chief executive, not a chief politician, in the White House.

I'm a strong believer in the NRA.

It's unnecessary for elected officials to release their taxes because they are already required by law to submit a personal financial disclosure.

What do I know about Mitt Romney? I know that he's a self-serving egomaniac who puts himself first, who has a chip on his shoulder, and thinks that he should be president of the United States.

People now don't die from prostate cancer, breast cancer, and some of the other things.

We are a compassionate country.

Everything I have done in the private sector has been through an ethics review point by point by point, and I have been given a clean bill of health by Ethics from the day I walked in the door, including my involvement with Innate Immunotherapeutics and my position on the board.

There are illegal votes cast, and if we can tighten down, we should do it.

There's a gotcha piece in every interview that the press has, more or less, with President Trump.

There's no love lost between me and Mitt Romney.

We sometimes take our security for granted.

President Trump is President Trump. He is the commander-in-chief. He can roll things out however he wants.

I do have a carry permit.

When they write my epitaph, it's going to say, 'Innate Immunotherapeutics, saving millions of lives.' It's not going to be 'member of Congress.'

If you can't get up in the morning and laugh at yourself, don't get out of bed.

Politics is a nasty business.

The most important thing is jobs.

We're going to run against Nancy Pelosi in 2018. We'll remind people in 2018 - what's the rhetorical question - 'Do you really want Nancy Pelosi back as speaker of the House?'

I am solidly, 100 percent behind Donald Trump.

I think it's the aggressive press we have that does try to push President Trump, you know, into an area where maybe he will say something that then they'll just jump on.