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I want to say to the American people, we hear you. We want to do right by you, and we will deliver.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Now we they’re elected representatives must listen, i want to say to the American people, we hear you. We want to do right by you, and we will deliver.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We weren’t able to pass legislation, but with a unified Republican government, we can fix these problems.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
He turned politics on its head, we will work hand in hand.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
With a unified Republican government, we can fix these problems, what I see is great potential. What I see is a unified government.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We actually have a plan to replace ObamaCare, all of us have basically gotten a consensus on what our plan is, but we have to win an election to put it in place.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The FBI documents further demonstrate Secretary Clinton’s complete disregard for properly handling classified information. This is exactly why I called on DNI Clapper to deny Hillary Clinton access to classified information, moreover, a senior The State Department official’s attempt to pressure The FBI to hide the extent of this mishandling bears all the signs of a cover-up.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I am sickened by what I heard, women are to be championed and revered, not objectified.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
For the president, this is about keeping a campaign promise, for us, this is about keeping Americans safe.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
None of those things Hillary Clinton’s going to advance, she represents a third Obama term.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The blame lies with the people who committed these vicious acts and no one else.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The last thing we are going to do is surrender the floor over to these kinds of tactics when we know it's going to compromise the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I can’t say I’m surprised because people want self-government, they want sovereignty, they want self-determination, and I can’t say that I would feel differently if I were a citizen of Great Britain when you have people from other countries regulating your country, writing your laws, i can clearly relate to the thinking behind the Brexit vote.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I respect the decision made by the people of United Kingdom. The U.K. is an indispensable ally of the United States, and that special relationship is unaffected by this vote.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We're not going to repeal Obamacare when the current president of the United States is a guy named Obama, what we are laying out today is a first-time-in-six-years consensus by the Republicans in the House on what we replace Obamacare with.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This admission proves once again that White House intentionally misled the American people about the Iran deal.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I said that some bills might fail because we are not going to tightly control the process and predetermine the outcome around here.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We need to return to regular order. Now I know that sounds like process. But it’s actually a matter of principle, we need to make some changes, starting with how the House does business.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I’m just not ready to do that at this point, i’m not there right now.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The speaker welcomes input from the RSC and all members of our conference.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We will address the situation through the regular appropriations process as the need arises, and our appropriators are looking at how to do just that.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
My job is to ensure that there’s integrity in the process, that the rules are followed by the book.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This job provides a platform to communicate a conservative vision for our country, this is a critical role that has to be played, and I am in a position to play it.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Let me speak directly to the delegates on this: If no candidate has a majority on the first ballot, I believe you should only choose a person who actually participated in the primary, if you want to be the nominee -- to be the president -- you should actually run for it.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I want to put that to rest once and for all, let me be clear. I do not want, nor will I accept, the nomination for our party. ... Count me out.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This scene is just so horrific, one minute, people are going about their day. The next minute, people are running for their lives. This is a terrorist attack in the heart of Europe. As our countries have always done, we must confront this together.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's not going to be me. It should be somebody running for president.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
So, we're getting our minds around the idea that this could very well become a reality, and therefore those of us who are involved in the convention need to respect that.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Nothing has changed other than the perception that this is more likely to become an open convention than we thought before, so, we're getting our minds around the idea that this could very well become a reality, and therefore those of us who are involved in the convention need to respect that.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I think all of the anxiety is coming to a crescendo in this country. You have to understand -- we're the body of government closest to the people. We're up every other year and there's just a lot of anxiety that's out there.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The Republican primary voters are going to make this decision. This is not our decision to make.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
All candidates have an obligation to do what they can do to try and provide an atmosphere of harmony, to reduce the violence, to not incite violence and to make sure that we are appealing to people on their best ideals, that we are going to unite the country around ideas.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
What we can control is who we are and what we do here in the House.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
People are angry. People have looked at the last seven years, and they are understandably very anxious, very frustrated, and hurting, but the solution isn't to call names. It isn't to stoke anger for political gain.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I can help put substance in this campaign. The way we see out role in this campaign through our agenda project is to add a heel and a rudder on this ship of the Republican party and give it direction so we can take the American people a real choice.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Here's what I can control. If I see episodes where conservatism is being disfigured. If I see ideas and comments that mislead the people as to who we are as Republicans I'm going to speak out on those.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction around here these days. I don't really think anything of it. I don't really know him.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is a very extraordinary step. In fact it's never been done before but this executive amnesty is a direct attack on the Congress' Article 1 powers under our Constitution.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We believe all people are created equal in the eyes of God and our government. This is fundamental and if someone wants to be our nominee they must understand this.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people's prejudices.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I've said 100 times we're going to be able work with whoever our nominee is, we're going to be able to present a unified front. That's my anticipation -- whoever the nominee is going to be.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
That primary is well on its way, it's got a long way to go, but we're going to be able to work with whoever our nominee is.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We are making legal preparations if the president tries to break the law, and what boggles my mind is that the president is contemplating directing the military to knowingly break the law.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our law is really clear, these detainees cannot come to American soil.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our border state governors who had standing in courts went and sued the administration, so what we will do, whenever he does one of these actions, is take the best way forward we can -- we can come up with to get the best result, which is to stop him from doing it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm told about this. I keep thinking to myself, 'Yeah, I better figure out what exactly that means.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think everyone is going to make spin that benefits their side. I think it's pretty obvious.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The Supreme Court is not an extension of the White House. The President has absolutely every right to nominate someone to the Supreme Court, but Congress as an equal branch also has every right not to confirm someone.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have moved one step closer to a new round of North Korea sanctions.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This rule should be struck down permanently before coal country is destroyed completely, and American consumers are consigned to higher energy prices, great news for Wyoming American energy. Republicans will do what we can to keep this rule permanently blocked.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
But the thing is, when you are praying, you are doing something about it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
You see it in the papers or on Twitter, when people say they're praying for someone or something, the attitude in some quarters seems to be, 'Don't just pray; do something about it.'.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
With everything that's at stake in 2016 we've been talking about how do we go on offense on ideas and how do we make sure that we offer the country a very clear and very compelling choice. They deserve that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is nothing short of a generational defining moment we are in. The country is crying out for solutions. The country is crying out to be unified. The country is crying out for a positive vision that brings us all together.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If he's going to give us a plan to actually defeat ISIS, we'll clearly work with him on that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Put a cough drop in the corner of your mouth, it keeps you salivating so you don't go thirsty.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
For 2017 to be the kind of year it has to be, that 2016 is the year where we give the country an alternative, we give them ideas, we give them solutions, and we run on those, instead of having a personality contest in 2016 we have an ideas contest, and I believe we can do that whoever our nominee is going to be.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I believe that the country is in a very bad place, i believe that our economy is extremely weak, I believe the world is on fire.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The President has been giving us more distractions than solutions, i'm not really sure what he's doing, other than he's trying to create an issue, and I think he's trying to distract from his failings.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We just said, 'Be yourself, communicate to the country, represent your party as well as you have been and you'll be just fine,' i think she's a great spokesman for our party, I think the future is extremely bright for Nikki and that's why we asked her to do it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Believe me, I understand the stakes can be high for a person doing this speech, i think she's a natural.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I'm really excited about this, if you want to hear an inclusive leader who's visionary, who's got a path for the future, who's brought people together, who's unified, it's Nikki Haley.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's no surprise that someone named Obama vetoed a bill repealing Obamacare, but here's the thing. The idea that Obamacare is the law of the land for good is a myth. This law will collapse under its own weight, or it will be repealed. Because all those rules and procedures Senate Democrats have used to block us from doing this? That's all history.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The people deserve a truly patient-centered health care system, and ultimately -- ultimately, this is going to require a Republican president. That's why our top priority in 2016 is going to be offering the country a clear choice with a bold pro-growth agenda.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Is The GOP-controlled House hidden in some secret room in the Capitol ? Maybe Donald Trump has The GOP-controlled House. Perhaps we should alert the Capitol Police or better yet, maybe we should call the FBI to help locate the Republican plan on healthcare.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think it would be nice if he would actually focus on defeating ISIS, on calling radical Islamic terrorism what it is, instead of talking about how we can intimidate and frustrate the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
While we don't yet know the details of the plan, the President is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will, his proposals to restrict gun rights were debated by the United States Senate, and they were rejected. No President should be able to reverse legislative failure by executive fiat, not even incrementally.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I'm not going to predict how the vote count is going to go down in a negotiation like this. You win some, you lose some.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I believe in religious freedom. I believe most of us do. I mean it's the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. This is who we are. This is why this country was founded in the first place, i think that comment or plan deserved to be called out as an exception, but my rule is not to comment on the people or the ups and downs of the presidential campaign.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think we've been pretty clear. We're not going to have a shutdown. I never thought we would. We aren't, we're putting our bill together. We've been negotiating. We'll be posting sometime today. We're just waiting for the score keepers to finish drafting.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't think it would be right to say what date we're going to be done by because I want to make sure that these negotiations are done well and done right, and not by some arbitrary deadline.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I weighed in on the comment made in the presidential campaign because I think that needed to be commented on, but I'm not going to spend every day here talking about the go-betweens of what's happening in the presidential race.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We don't expect to do this for a long term, we need to get it right, i don't want us to go home until we get this done.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Our No. 1 goal for the next year is to put together a complete alternative to the left's agenda.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Maybe the way to win the debate is to play identity politics, never mind ideas. Maybe what you do is slice and dice the electorate: Demonize. Polarize. Turn out your voters. Hope the rest stay home, and I would just say, 'yes, it's possible we could win that way -- but to what end?'.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The list of people who he knew and people who he befriended is like a who's who of the conservative movement, he moved among giants in American politics. He is one himself.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We need to take a pause and see what's happening.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What we're trying to do is find out the facts, make sure what our response is actually addresses the problem without infringing upon the rights of law abiding citizens.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We will not have a religious test, only a security test.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is not about politics. This is about national security.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is a moment where it is better to be safe than to be sorry, so we think the prudent, the responsible thing is to take a pause in this particular aspect of this refugee program in order to verify that terrorists are not trying to infiltrate the refugee population.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We've got to make sure we're protecting ourselves, so that's what we're looking at. What is the best option -- not just so we have an issue to talk about but so we have a result, which is to make sure we are not complicit or even facilitating of having someone come in who would seek to do us harm from Syria.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is the legislative branch, and the power of the purse rests within the legislative branch. And we fully expect that we are going to exercise that power.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
They have these ozone machines apparently that you can detoxify the environment, but I'm going to have to work on the carpeting in here.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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