Doug Ose

“The country has moved off track. The people in Washington don't have the hard-nosed business experience needed to get the economy up and running.”

“I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.”

“A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.”

“Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.”

“When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.”

“I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.”

“Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.”

“Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.”

“What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think 'So what?' They should think again.”

“There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.”

“I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.”