Quotes from John Barrasso

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

I'm telling you, as a doctor who spent about half of his time in the office taking care of our seniors on Medicare, it is a program that intentions to work are much better than the way it's working today in terms of practicality.

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

President Obama wants a climate deal and is willing to pay dearly to get it.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

We need to level the playing field so that people who buy insurance individually at the same tax rates as those who buy it than get it through work. We need to be able to let people to shop across state lines for better deals with insurance that works for them and their family, not something the government says they have to have.

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.

My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.

The priority is to put bills on the president's desk that will move the country forward.

I'm fortunate to live in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful, pristine places in the world.

Families will now have to prove to the IRS that they have Washington-approved and government-mandated insurance.

We can't have a third Obama term, which is what electing Hillary Clinton would do.

The Russians continue to say that they'll still go after terrorists, but that's a very elastic term. They're going after anybody they want. I don't trust them.

The Obama administration seems to have lost the will to win. The terrorists have not.

We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.

It will be up to Congress to check the president's ambition of committing the U.S. to an international green scheme that will produce little or no return.

In an agreement with China, President Obama has already pledged to reduce America's net greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 25% by 2025. In return, China has agreed to 'peak' its carbon-dioxide emissions in 2030.

Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.

Humans are contributing to additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.

The EPA's climate change regulations are based on compromised scientific reports and heavily flawed data.

Republicans aren't interested in a one-sentence fix unless that sentence is, 'Obamacare is repealed.'

I'm child of immigrants.