Blake Farenthold

“What message do we send to America if we impeach Obama and he gets away?”

“Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.”

“I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.”

“Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.”

“As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.”

“I think that we're so generous in some of our social problems that people are unwilling to get a job outside in the heat. Rather than get 15 dollars to go get roofing, they'd rather get 9 or 10 dollars in benefits.”

“I think anybody who's had an alcoholic in their life, or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough, there's no incentive to change.”

“I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.”

“Every member of Congress has highways in their district.”

“My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.”

“Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have left the U.S. with better relations with Iran and Cuba and worse relations with allies like Israel.”

“'Those people' is a bad word.”

“I've already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.”

“How is having every phone call that I make to my wife, to my daughter, relevant to any terror investigation?”

“Nobody likes to make a hard decision, because you're running every two years.”

“I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.”

“You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.”

“I went in with the youthful vigor that I could single-handedly change the world. But you fast come to the realization that you're 1/435th of one-half of one-third of the government.”

“I'm committed to voting to repeal Obamacare or defending it as much as possible.”

“The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.”