#pa

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. ↗

— Fred Upton

#allies #approach #bureaucracy #busy #congress

My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent. ↗

— Clea Duvall

#eat #go #i #like #myself

I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work. ↗

— Fred Upton

#conference #cut #entire #fight #folks

If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning. ↗

— Fred Upton

#beginning #china #continues #costs #efforts

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution. ↗

— Chris Christie

#center #come #corner #cost #crisis

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills. ↗

— Chris Christie

#did #governor #i #in the past #out

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government. ↗

— Chris Christie

#each #end #government #make #must

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end. ↗

— Chris Christie

#always #beginning #campaigns #different #end

Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.' ↗

— Chris Christie

#i #newspaper #oh #read #said

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship. ↗

— Fred Upton

#bill #bureaucrats #care #change #decide