Mac Thornberry Quotes

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• Even talking about change can be threatening to entrenched interests...Careers in the Pentagon, the board room, or the halls of Congress are not advanced by…
• And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are…
• Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is…
• The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the…
• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned…
• My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
• I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
• We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet…
• No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
• For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the…
• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
• I am particularly disturbed that our country is the largest financial supporter of an organization that not only wastes a lot of our money but…
• The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
• In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be…
• We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
• Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was…
• Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.
• We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
• In a budget this massive, there are certainly areas where I think we could do much better.
• It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far…

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