Quotes from Paul Gosar

I know Gov. Palin is a classy lady and has her head on straight.

I am honored to have heard from so many voters, supporters, and local elected officials who have been pleased with the work I have done on their behalf. They want and deserve a leader who will aggressively pursue strong conservative policies and get results. That's exactly what I have done.

America's angry. America's scared. They want security from their country.

We were sent here to hold government accountable.

When it comes to politics, it's nice to be mired with Sarah Palin. But I'm Paul Gosar. I'm my own person.

I am endorsing Sen. Cruz because I have worked with him in the trenches, fought battles with him on the Hill, and he has proven himself to be honorable, tough, and a man of his word. He votes the way he says he will vote. He backs his words with action. I respect that, and for that reason, I think he will make a great president.

Our border security is laughable.

When more land is locked up by the federal government, real people suffer, and opportunities for future prosperity are reduced.

The MAVNI program allows citizenship to be granted to any enlistee who serves one day of wartime service.

Aren't we supposed to be standing for something instead of falling for everything?

A government that can take all and can seize all, a government that doesn't trust its citizens, a government that says it's their way or the highway... that's the scary part.

I refuse to go along with the status quo of more wasteful federal spending, and I refuse to let the Obama Administration continue to force their misguided ideology through regulatory overreach.

Rather than making minor repairs to a few small leaks in the roof, the Architect of the Capitol is proposing to tear down the entire roof and replace it with something called a new vegetative roofing system. We shouldn't be wasting precious taxpayer money on a new, state-of-the-art vegetative roofing system.

The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear.

While Secretary Napolitano may be gone, she will not be forgotten. Her inaction and incompetence on border security will continue to plague our nation for years to come.

That part of life is the thing that we really need to concentrate on. If you lose the way children look through their eyes at the world, it really becomes kind of a doldrum.

The president and his open border allies may hate the fact that the Constitution gets in the way of their political agenda, but it's up to Congress to take bold action and stop this lawlessness.

I don't need to be lectured by the Pope about climate change.

If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend.

The earth's climate has been changing since God created it, with or without man. On that, we should all agree.

I think pressure gets to people when it appears they're trying to cover things up.

I said what I was going to do. I'm going to do it. And if I deliver on that, my reelection will be just fine.

Our leadership in D.C. should be bold and determined.

I've asked the Department of the Interior inspector general to look into how much manpower and taxpayer money has been spent responding to ALEC-supported bills that force federal land managers to give land to states.