Dana Rohrabacher Quotations

And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.

I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.

Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.

Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.

There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that.

And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.

I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.

I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.

Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.

January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.

Let's quit giving these fellows the benefit of the doubt. It's costing us so much money.

Since September 11, 2001, more than 70,000 detainees have been captured in Afghanistan and Iraq. The vast majority have been released.

Maybe the risks are too high. I'm open to that discussion.

On my watch, I've been privileged to peer into the future of dynamic citizen astronauts routinely flying to and from the heavens.

Frankly, had Medawar not had this meltdown and not been able to fulfill his obligations on his Homeland Security project, there would have been no question about this at all.

For years we have lived with the lie that the United Nations is somewhat above corruption, that the United Nations represents the best of humankind.

Helping someone get an accurate picture of how government works is something I'd do for anybody.

He was flamboyant, he exaggerated, he had flash and glitter. He fit into my image of what Hollywood was all about. None of that translated to me that he couldn't do the project.

The American people understand that in order to get an organization like the United Nations to reform, there must be consequences.

You don't build new nuclear-power plants for a country that's building up its military and threatening to use nuclear weapons against the United States.

We have a monument here for the greatest troublemakers of our history -- Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

Today, we are welcoming a great hero of freedom.

Carbon dioxide is....being portrayed as a pollutant; in fact, it makes things grow, and it is not toxic to humans.

I have observed in my 30 years in Washington that when a President initiates a major policy speech on a controversial issue while Congress is in recess, it usually is because what he is advocating is indefensible and that he is seeking to minimize criticism.

I did everything but drink the bong water when I was young.

The ice caps are melting, which we see over and over again. Yeah, they're melting on Mars, too!

And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the Space Shuttle is actually dollar bills burning, and the most efficient method of destroying American dollar bills as has ever been devised by man.

We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?

Once the fire from the retaliatory strike dies down, the American people are going to find out that it is the Clinton Administration's wrongheaded policies that resulted in the creation of this terrorist haven in Afghanistan in the first place.

The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.

Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases?

Every man, woman and child in this country may have been put in jeopardy because American technology could well have been transferred to the Communist Chinese in order to perfect their nuclear weapons delivery systems.

The testimony we've heard has been depressing, totally depressing. NASA has an image of overcoming challenges that are preventing humankind from going into space. It seems that NASA has been unable to overcome the challenge of good financial record-keeping.

Our discussions with the king made it very clear that he is willing, ready and able to return to Afghanistan to serve at the head of an interim government -- the unifying factor in a government that would be open to everyone.

This has been coming for years, and now we're facing the crisis. I don't like it, but it's a choice of being dependent on the Russians or dependent on the space shuttle, and it's becoming more and more apparent that it's riskier to depend on the space shuttle.

It's something that's going to push technology, push our capabilities. It's going to push us to do more than we can do today.

The fact that we split his job into three different people suggests that we're being very careful, that we indicate this is a temporary step-down on the part of Mr. DeLay.

I'm aghast at what American corporations have done in terms of trading American technology.

In times of emergency, it is responsible to increase the power of our government, yet we recognize that these powers should contain sunset provisions.

If he is found guilty of fraud I will seriously think of giving that option money back to some of the people who were defrauded. But if he was only someone who was flamboyant and incompetent I will not feel compelled to take a strong look at giving back the money.

The jury will decide if this guy's a con man or an incompetent.