Roy Blunt Quotes (34 Quotes)

This week ... we'll, I think under the suspension calendar, have TRIA (Terrorism Risk Insurance Act).

I do think over the last seven years I've counted more votes than anybody else on the House floor, and I'm confident that we are now where we need to be to get this done.

Even a bill designed to cut gas prices probably needed more time,

I will continue to work aggressively in the next few hours and days to build on these commitments and to reach out to each of my colleagues, seeking their support for the vision of smarter, not bigger government that is accountable to the people who send us here.

We haven't done this in 10 years, so the members aren't used to dealing with these mandatory programs,

This report's only of value if we use it in a positive, forward-looking way, and not try to get into meaningless blaming, who could have done what when now that it doesn't matter, ... American Morning.

I think it is important to put these tax policies out there and do our best to make the truthful case that anything short of this would be a tax increase,

Members when it comes time to vote often have to balance where they are on one issue with where they might be on a handful of other issues, ... I'm not prepared to give up on ANWR yet.

It's not easy to fill the gap left by Tom DeLay but all of our team is going to come together like we've never come together before,

There's tremendous excitement out there on the part of Republicans in Congress about a leader who can do the kinds of things in Washington that you've already done with such success right here in Texas.

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

The product we had for today wasn't quite where it needs to be yet,

Tom DeLay will stay as leader, ... Meet the Press.

I'm the whip, ... We've had 50-plus straight victories, so any time we can't go to the floor the day we are supposed to go to the floor, I don't see that as a victory for me.

I think the problem was it was a very political vote and there were lots of absences.

If you were in the leadership, how long would you want someone around telling you what to do

Im confident that a full examination of the facts in this case will clear Toms name and return him to his position as majority leader in the House.

Despair has been your lot for 60 years, ... but today we can say farewell with courage and with the knowledge that the fate of our fellow citizens has finally been discovered.

If anybody can count votes in the House, I can count votes in the House.

I think we need to know a little more about what the world we're going to live in looks like.

I think the whole leadership is in agreement this is what ought to happen, both the House and the Senate,

I think largely because of his effectiveness as a leader, DeLay became a target, ... We all believe that he'll return once this indictment is out of the way. That's what the rules call for.

But he pledged to bring the issue to a vote. I don't know that we'll have the votes on the day we get back, no, ... But I think we'll have the votes next week as the chairmen work with their members.

They're not used to pushing back when the other side suggests that the savings are deep cuts in social programs.

Tom DeLay wants to lay out that case. I think our friends on the other side know the only effective way he can do that is if the Ethics Committee does its work,

our goal is to get that to a majority of the Republican members of Congress.

We're open to doing what we need to do to achieve the highest number of savings that 218 people are willing to make happen, ... Now we'll see if the membership is pleased with all the parts of that, this will undoubtedly not be exactly the same when it gets to the floor.

One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, ... Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.

We all believe that he (DeLay) will return once this indictment is out of the way, and be the leader again.

Our team has the very big shoes of Tom DeLay to fill temporarily, ... Under the strong leadership of the Speaker, we will work hard to do what Tom would do -- complete our work, and move forward with a positive agenda for the American people -- until he returns.

I think the compromise works. I talked to Chairman (Michael) Oxley about it again today and we look forward to having that situation resolved on the House floor next week.

We did not arrive at this energy crisis overnight it is a direct result of years of unreasonable, burdensome regulations and obstruction on the part of radical environmentalists.

I don't believe anybody is opposed to refining this product in an appropriate way, ... We're having a significant discussion with our members.

It's fair to say the White House has made the case -- both the president and the vice president -- that the McCain amendment is harmful,