Quotes from Jeff Duncan

I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.

Iran is a nation with American blood on its hands.

I was joking the other day that I'm American UKIP.

It was easy for Sanford to have a bully pulpit as governor. It's another thing to be in the trenches, having to face leadership, and say, 'No, that's not a conservative position, that's not what we're doing.'

I think we're taking a snapshot view of climate change and trying to implement policy based on that snapshot.

The United States did not act in Iraq in 1988 when gas was being used on the Kurds or when gas was used in the Iranian-Iraq War.

I thought Trump really exposed himself as a truther, and I don't think that will play real well in South Carolina.

Stealing is stealing. I would hope that a federal employee that engages in theft of trusting travelers would be disciplined more than with just a letter.

I'm confident that Gov. Romney can win over the American people on the promise of limited government, defending individual liberties and a return to common-sense solutions to our country's biggest problems.

We tried two moderate Republican candidates, McCain and Romney, and we lost both times.

Mark Meadows will fight for what's right, because he understands that higher taxes and more regulations are not the way to solve our country's problems.

Despite my fierce opposition to the bill, I signed up for insurance through the exchanges and instructed my staff do the same.

Harry Reid rammed a partisan healthcare bill through the Senate that most Americans didn't want, and now it seems that members of his own staff don't want ObamaCare either.

Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.

I want to see Netanyahu speak to the Congress and speak to the American people about the real situation in Israel, and let me just say, I stand with Israel 100 percent, and I will never waiver on that.

Neutrality works well in my district.

Unfortunately, the health care bill commonly referred to as ObamaCare is making it more difficult for employers to provide insurance to their employees. It limits individuals' ability to pick their own doctors and, over time, decreases the quality of care we provide in this country.

This notion that manmade climate change is happening is wrong.

We worked very well with Mark Sanford. We stood shoulder to shoulder fighting for the principles that we believe in. But another person that stood there as well was a legislator, State Senator Larry Grooms.

I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

It's interesting how the Vatican has gotten so political when ultimately the Vatican ought to be working to lead people to Jesus Christ and salvation.

In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over.

I think Congress can pass a bill when the American people start regaining trust in the administration to actually do their job and enforce the laws that are already on the books.

We don't know what we don't know about Ebola. We think we know it's a virus, but is it mutating? Can it be spread by airborne?