Mike Lee Quotes

#1. The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. "Teaching to the middle" is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

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#2. On another occasion he toasted to the king's "long life," only to be questioned by his host, the king's son and heir, "Since when have you been so anxious about my parent's health?" Wilkes smiled and said, "Since I had the pleasure of your Royal Highness's acquaintance.

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#3. I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

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#4. The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.

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#5. We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionally limited government. We have to have more people come to Congress with that mindset. I think we can make this a better place, if, when elections happen, we support candidates who share that philosophy.

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#6. When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

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#7. The kindest reaction Hamilton received was from Benjamin Franklin. He was asleep. In contrast, Hamilton's ally James Madison was alert - but with worry in his eyes and woe written across his face.7

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#8. My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

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#9. By simply refusing to fund a president's unconstitutional conduct, Congress can stop him dead in his tracks - even after the courts have abdicated their responsibilities to do so.

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#10. I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

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#11. I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.

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#12. It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

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#13. Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying and I've been saying this for six months.

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#14. I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.

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#15. Before long, the policy of putting quotas on oranges went from bad to worse. A Navel Orange Administrative Committee created by the Department of Agriculture began setting the policy, and Sunkist, a titan in the orange industry, was given outsized influence over the committee.

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#16. These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.

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#17. I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

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#18. I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.

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#19. Limited government must come politically, not judicially.

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#20. When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.

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#21. You can never be too old or too young to be attracted to someone. I still remember my first crush back in grade school.

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#22. We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

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#23. The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.

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#24. The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.

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#25. When an opponent predicted Wilkes would die from either hanging or the pox, Wilkes fired back, "That depends, my Lord, on whether I embrace your lordship's principles or your mistress.

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#26. NYC, You Inspire Me to never stop exploring the endless possibilities of food.

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#27. The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

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