Quotes from Blake Farenthold

Why should guns be treated different than toasters? If your defective product injures somebody, you're responsible for it.

With President Obama restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, the immigration preferential treatment given to Cubans... no longer makes sense.

As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.

I went in with the youthful vigor that I could single-handedly change the world. But you fast come to the realization that you're 1/435th of one-half of one-third of the government.

I actually enjoy having the Capitol view. We started referring to it as the trillion dollar view.

I think it's really tough being in Donald Trump's shoes, when you've got the media looking to put the worst possible spin to everything that you say.

I'm not going to sell Donald Trump short. I think the American people saw something in him.

I'm still on the Trump train.

I sit on the House Judiciary Committee, where we've been actively working on concrete solutions to fix our nation's immigration policy, piece-by-piece.

Every member of Congress has highways in their district.

You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.

We all went up to Washington on a mission to change things. What I found is that the Founding Fathers set it up where it's a little more difficult to do. We've got the Senate and the president to deal with.

Hillary Clinton and her media machine try to dismiss, but anybody who understands anything about how email works - and this is millennials in particular, who grew up on the Internet - know that you're an idiot to keep sensitive information on a server in your house.

Everybody wants to help folks out. But we've got a system where you can stay on unemployment for an awfully long time. And I think we need to create a system of decreasing benefits over time to encourage you to get a job.

Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.

I think that we're so generous in some of our social problems that people are unwilling to get a job outside in the heat. Rather than get 15 dollars to go get roofing, they'd rather get 9 or 10 dollars in benefits.

In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.

The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.

You've got to do the same sort of outreach to Hispanics that you do to any other group. They want to see their congressman.

In cutting government, we cut a huge variety of programs, a lot of which I would have liked to see increase, and a lot of which I'd like to see decreased more.

We have testimony saying, and I think common sense also dictates, that in a failed state like Syria, you don't have any government information, police reports to rely on to vet somebody. So there's no way to do a background check from somebody coming out of Syria. There's no way we can find out whether they're safe or not.

I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.

Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.

I believe that the kids are innocent victims in this. We spent money educating them. Many of them don't speak a word of Spanish, and we're thinking of deporting them. That doesn't make sense.