Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by Trent Franks - Page 2

My own wife is from the Philippines and came here legally to this country, and there are a lot of people that want to be part of this nation, and I want them to be part of this nation.

If Donald Trump is our nominee, I don't think that he represents the best our party has to offer either in temperament or qualification, and I think he's the weakest candidate that is in the race at this point in terms of the general election, and that to nominate him is to give Hillary Clinton a much better chance of being president.

It's a strong country, but Mr. Obama seems to be doing everything he can to hold it back.

If we have to do enhanced interrogation on terrorists, then I can live with that.

The Constitution gives the Congress absolute authority within the District of Columbia on any legislative issues whatsoever.

My district is well-acquainted with my commitment to protecting innocent human life.

I have nothing but the greatest respect and affection for Kevin McCarthy.

I think Paul Ryan would make a great speaker. And people like him are the kinds of people that we need.

Wil Cardon understands what Arizona needs in Washington. He is committed to getting our economy back on track, upholding our country's rule of law, and looking out for Arizona families.

Either the Obamacare is a dead letter, or the origination clause is; we can't have both.

The president and the administration had a duty to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, but powerful constituencies of the president did not want the president to defend it. And unfortunately, politics trumped duty.

Paul Ryan, along with Daniel Webster, is a totally, deeply revered and respected individual in this Congress. And I love both of them. Both of them would have made good speakers. Both of them would make a good pallbearer for a man like me. They're that dear to me.

Businesses - we protect our businesses with the guns, our banks, our money. We protect politicians with guns.

The comment that I've made is that if unaccompanied minors can cross the border, then certainly trained terrorists probably can, too.

I so respect Sen. McCain's service to this country, and no one certainly knows more about torture than he does, and so I recognize that.

I'm a big defense hawk and a big fiscal conservative, but in this case, Pakistan continues to imprison the man who gave us Osama bin Laden and continue to have a major ideological bent within the middle echelons of their government that, I think, should cause all of us pause given the size and nature of their nuclear arsenal.

When the Left doesn't want to make abortion the issue, they say you're being against minorities.

The people still get to choose whether they want to support conservatives or if they want to support Mr. Trump, whose record is not conservative.

Once in a while, a person finds his humanity in a way that astounds his contemporaries.

Obviously, there's always a battle over philosophical leanings and persuasions, but the bottom line here is that Americans need to understand that this is an ideology in jihadist terrorism that is dangerous beyond words, and we need the moderate Muslim voices to be heard here if this is to be diminished in Islam itself.

The American public should know that the Senate report actually reveals that 82% of detainees subjected to enhanced interrogation did, in fact, produce intelligence that saved American lives.

On the Republican Party platform and the major issues of the Republican Party, Charlie Dent is significantly removed from those foundational principles in his voting record.

[on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

It not only is a complete undermining of the principles of family and marriage and the hope of future generations, but it completely begins to see our society break down to the extent that that foundational unit of the family that is the hope of survival of this country is diminished to the extent that it literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery