Quotes from Blake Farenthold

I did vote to defund the Obama program that defers deporting the so-called DREAMers, because that was the president's decision, and the president shouldn't unilaterally get to decide what laws to enforce or not enforce.

It's about going to where your voters are.

What message do we send to America if we impeach Obama and he gets away?

I would consider it to be immoral to take a paycheck when the people in the federal government are not.

I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.

I'm committed to voting to repeal Obamacare or defending it as much as possible.

We need to be talking about things like the DREAM Act. We need to also be talking about e-verify. We also need to be talking about border security.

Running on the pledge to end two wars, President Obama has the country entangled in three: Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and that doesn't include the American's foray into Libya.

The census should not be political.

In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld President Obama's overreaching mandate that forces every American to purchase health insurance or face a fine.

I've got a quad copter on my Christmas list, as I suspect quite a few people do.

Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.

It's Congress' job to keep an eye on the other agencies and the workings of the entire government. It is our constitutional duty.

Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.

My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.

There is no Republican out there who wants a Hillary Clinton presidency.

I will support a path to citizenship if it does not fall within the definition of amnesty, and we've got to define what amnesty is in this country.

I think there are several departments we could completely get rid of, and we wouldn't miss it.

I feel like my mandate when I was elected was to go reduce the size of government, lower taxes, and increase freedom, and freedom isn't free, and sometimes you have to make a small sacrifice to move forward with what you're after.

Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.

One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.

I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.

If I were to leave Congress and want to start Farenthold TV, it would be very difficult. The fewer players there are, the fewer the opportunities to build a big enough audience to get on.

How is having every phone call that I make to my wife, to my daughter, relevant to any terror investigation?