Blake Farenthold

“I serve and answer to the Texans I represent - not the Hollywood elite.”

“I would consider it to be immoral to take a paycheck when the people in the federal government are not.”

“We need to be talking about things like the DREAM Act. We need to also be talking about e-verify. We also need to be talking about border security.”

“I'm doing a good job in Washington.”

“If you are just using the service to look at Web sites and download e-mail, then a DSL line may be cheaper. It is when you have more data going out that wireless can make a difference.”

“Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.”

“If I were to leave Congress and want to start Farenthold TV, it would be very difficult. The fewer players there are, the fewer the opportunities to build a big enough audience to get on.”

“The census should not be political.”

“Running on the pledge to end two wars, President Obama has the country entangled in three: Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and that doesn't include the American's foray into Libya.”

“It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.”

“It's said that you can tell a lot about someone by who opposes them. In the case of liberal pundit Bill Maher - a man who called America's actions cowardly in the wake of 9/11 and who mocked WWII veterans who wanted to visit the monument built in their honor - I wear his disapproval of me as a badge of honor.”

“I actually enjoy having the Capitol view. We started referring to it as the trillion dollar view.”

“I sit on the House Judiciary Committee, where we've been actively working on concrete solutions to fix our nation's immigration policy, piece-by-piece.”

“Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?”

“Sometimes you've got to make a hard decision, and there's a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington.”

“We have testimony saying, and I think common sense also dictates, that in a failed state like Syria, you don't have any government information, police reports to rely on to vet somebody. So there's no way to do a background check from somebody coming out of Syria. There's no way we can find out whether they're safe or not.”

“We all want to raise our children well.”

“My deal is you start as far to the right as you can get, and go to the conference committee with the Senate, and hopefully end up with something you can live with.”

“You've got to do the same sort of outreach to Hispanics that you do to any other group. They want to see their congressman.”

“Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.”