Patrick McHenry Quotes (13 Quotes)


    It's better to have this time now than 14 months from now, (but) we have to start talking to the base, or they will stay home.

    I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

    It's what a partisan hack would do, and that's what we have in Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. And this is what you're putting forward.

    We had a great conversation over the course of about an hour, ... In fact, we talked about his start in politics when he was about my age when he worked for Willis Smith. He talked about the Willis Smith primary in 1950 like it was yesterday. It was a wonderful display of his long history and knowledge.

    We've had a large undermining of our traditional values in this country. And I think that was a repercussion of the hippies in the '60s and their 'anything goes' attitude. Our generation has a realistic approach. We're not sort of pie-in-the-sky people.


    We got a number of good things done this year. It's rewarding to turn an idea into law.

    I thought it would take years for a new member to become a player, ... It's better than I expected.

    I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

    This place is a much more sophisticated junior high school. There are the nice guys that everybody likes, the jocks, the geeks, the bullies they're all here. It's a representative democracy.

    It was to set a tone, ... Just because the average age on our team is 10 years older, just because they're 100 pounds bigger and a foot taller, we would not be the demure members of Congress. We would actually be aggressive.

    Often a blank slate gets to the court and then leans to the left,

    If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

    We have to make the system solvent going forward. We have to make it a pay as you go system. We can't afford the rapid rising costs.


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