Quotes from Bob Ehrlich

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.

I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.

Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into.

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.

If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.

Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.

I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them.

I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.