Quotes from Trent Franks

When it comes to our children, the most precious treasure God ever gives us, we protect them with a little sign that says, 'No guns allowed.'

Our focus should be on the more than 70 cures and treatments that have been successfully produced from other forms of stem cell research that do not destroy a human life.

I have nothing but the greatest respect and affection for Kevin McCarthy.

The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government.

The administration has taken its inexcusable apathy a step further, declaring that even abiding by the few token sanctions in place isn't truly necessary, as evidenced by the now 20 countries to which the Obama administration has granted waivers to continue doing business with Iran.

Donald Trump has not always been pro-life, and I hope that his conversion is complete.

The people still get to choose whether they want to support conservatives or if they want to support Mr. Trump, whose record is not conservative.

At present, it's not really clear who is in charge of protecting the nation from solar and nuclear EMP.

I always want to make sure we protect our soldiers' pay if there is a shutdown of any kind.

Barack Obama could solve this problem and get the birthers to back off... by showing his long form birth certificate.

I think that the important thing to consider here - Hubert Humphrey said that a society is measured by how he treats those in the dawn of life, those in the shadows of life, and those in the twilight of life. And it is true that Terri Schiavo lives among us in the shadows of life, but she is not brain dead. She feels pain.

If someone came into my home and wanted to arrest me for murder, that would be far less traumatizing to me than someone coming in and taking my 7-year-old twins.

I think Paul Ryan would make a great speaker. And people like him are the kinds of people that we need.

Paul Ryan, along with Daniel Webster, is a totally, deeply revered and respected individual in this Congress. And I love both of them. Both of them would have made good speakers. Both of them would make a good pallbearer for a man like me. They're that dear to me.

Much to Mr. Obama's chagrin, ours is not a government run by fiat. The American people have shown quite clearly that they will not simply roll over while this administration seeks to undercut our founding principles in pursuit of its preferred European model of government.

Wil Cardon understands what Arizona needs in Washington. He is committed to getting our economy back on track, upholding our country's rule of law, and looking out for Arizona families.

The president and the administration had a duty to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, but powerful constituencies of the president did not want the president to defend it. And unfortunately, politics trumped duty.

When you don't have a voice like Michele Bachmann's, who personifies all of the good things that the Tea Party has come to mean to America, then it's more difficult to have any sort of unified or representative message with the same profile in the media.

I am both astonished and honored beyond expression to be chosen as your 2011 Christian Statesman of the Year.

Nuclear missiles don't discriminate on party lines when they land.

Either the Obamacare is a dead letter, or the origination clause is; we can't have both.

I will tell you that my position is that funding bills should include as little money for Obamacare as possible.

Mr. Gingrich has a number of elements in his record that could be criticized accurately. But to suggest that he was somehow anti-Reagan or to suggest that Reagan was anti-Gingrich is preposterously untrue.

Open Society Foundations is essentially another name for George Soros, who is a committed leftist, one-world-government ideologue.