Chris Cannon Quotations

Nothing relieves stress like setting things on fire.

For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,.

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.

Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

So this judge in Virginia rules that a lesbian wasn't fit to raise her own daughter because she might grow up to be a lesbian, and gives custody to the lesbian's mother. And I'm thinking, "She's already raised one lesbian."

Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.

We can go on and on about how good we are, ... We are the center. We are correct. We need to be proud of that.

It is increasingly clear that a more prudent policy is to provide opportunities for reprocessing and secure on-site storage, ... Our time and resources should be spent developing better ways to use or dispose of nuclear waste than outdated, risky plans such as storage in our western states.

Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.

You know, if we're going to bring down the price of gas, you have to have three things. You have to have a big reserve, you have to have the ability to develop oil out of that reserve quickly, and you have to be able to produce oil at a relatively low cost.

We have to take steps to prevent lawsuits from bankrupting the national firearms industry and denying all Americans their fundamental right to bear arms,

We are so excited to formally announce to the neighborhood, that the committee was successful in raising the needed $60,000 to keep the branches open for another year,

The more services online and the fewer state employees on the dole, the better.

If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it's like three times as much as all of that combined and that's just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available.

He said, 'There are some things that we're really hard on, some that we care about and some that are granular details,'