Quotes from John Barrasso

Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.

When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.

The states ought to be the ones making the decisions about the individual mandate, the employer mandate, all of the different requirements of what kind of insurance people have to have.

I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.

The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.

The whole future, I think, of Wyoming and the economy has to do with coal and our clean coal technology, and we're going to have the ability here in Wyoming to deal with all of the things of this so-called climate change.

A culture of intimidation has no justification in any administration.

Americans want real solutions and good jobs.

Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror.

When we export energy, we export American influence overseas. As I travel around the world, I know that there are people that want to buy energy from America.

The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.

Everywhere I travel around my home state of Wyoming - but also around the country - I continue to hear, 'How can Washington make us buy something we don't want to buy, a product? They can't tell us to buy breakfast cereal or something else - how can they do that?'

Instead of giving preference to oil imported from overseas, Washington should look to North American coal, oil shale and oil sands, all of which provide an affordable, abundant and alternative source of fuel. In addition to increasing cost effectiveness options for the government, it will also increase America's energy security.

We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.

The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.

The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.

The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.

Whenever Washington makes a one-size-fits-all decision, it doesn't work in states all around the country.

We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken.

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.

There are billions of barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf. There is even more in Alaska. There is enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years. The Democrats say all this American energy is off limits.

EPA has a long history of relying on science that was not created by the agency itself. This often means that the science is not available to the public and, therefore, cannot be reproduced and verified.

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

You want to continue with the social safety net: the good, the bad and the ugly parts of that, you have to have a vibrant economy. You have to have growth of the economy.