Quotes by Mike Lee - Page 1

Congress constitutionally lacks general police powers.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Congress
Police
Police Power
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I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Deputies
Persons
Who I Am
Deputy
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Limited government must come politically, not judicially.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Government
Limited Government
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I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Government
Doe
Thinking
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You can do a lot of damage if you try to answer a question part-way.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Damage
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NYC, You Inspire Me to never stop exploring the endless possibilities of food.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Inspire
Nyc
Possibility
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Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying and I've been saying this for six months.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Conservative
Six Months
Values
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I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
War
Declaring
Soil
Thinking
Zone
Tantamount
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I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Done
Needs
Want
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The Tea Party has an important voice in the country and now they have a voice in the U.S. Senate.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Country
Party
Senate
Tea Party
Voice
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We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Jobs
Creation
Allow
Legislate
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My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Kids
Movement
Party
Tea Party
Tea Party Movement
Views
Concerns
Political Views
Reflected
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I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Bases
Clauses
Thinking
Basis
Clause
Realized
Regular Basis
Talks
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The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Candidates
Conservative
Misguided
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You can never be too old or too young to be attracted to someone. I still remember my first crush back in grade school.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Love
Crush
Sweet
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It is not nothing to ask someone holding an election certificate in the United States Senate to provide his or her vote.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Election
Senate
Vote
Certificate
Holding
Provide
United States Senate
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When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Doors
Going Out
Revenue
Way
Money Find More
Door
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It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Ceilings
Collapse
Debt
Debt Ceiling
Fantasy
Fiction
Science Fiction
Science Science Fiction Fantasy
Ceiling
Raise
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When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Government
Accustomed
Country
Government Spending
Levels
Spending
Government Country Back
Certain Level
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At any given time, when there is a Republican president, typically we regard that person as the leader of the Republican Party.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Regard
Republican Party
Any Given Time
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There's a lot of bipartisan rancor, a lot of excessive delegation of legislative power from the legislative branch to the executive branch.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Bipartisan
Delegation
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
Branch
Excessive
Executive
Legislative
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These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Country
Immigration
Special
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I'm someone who has a hard time turning down a conversation. And an even harder time starting a conversation and ending it abruptly - ending it before it's over.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Conversation
Starting
Abruptly
Turning
Ending
Hard Time
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We can't give excessive, unfettered power to a president to act alone, to bind an entire country to a set of principles, a set of rules that the president, him or herself, makes.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Alone
President
Rules
Act
Bind
Set
Entire
Excessive
Herself
Unfettered
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When people were subjected to the impeachment and removal process, Aaron Burr was right there, looking out for their rights, even though it wasn't in his political interest to do so.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Impeachment
Removal
Aaron
Subjected
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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.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Differences
Limits
Movement
Party
Perceive
Recognizing
Tea
Tea Party
Tea Party Movement
Difference
Powers
Respected
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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.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Lessons
Offering
Teaching
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My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Colleagues
Purpose
Democrats
Republicans
For The People
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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.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Ceilings
Debt
Debt Ceiling
Generations
National Debt
Representation
Taxation
Thinking
Unborn
Vote
Ceiling
National
Raising
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Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Coming Out
Differences
Distinction
Way
Tax
Coming
Difference
Penalty
Ways
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We have brought down emissions in this country through our legal system and through technological innovation. We can do this on our own. We don't have to have the permission of countries all over the world to do that.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Legal
Emissions
Innovation
Legal System
Permission
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The best thing we can do when we want to elevate civil dialogue in our American political discourse is to do whatever we can to make sure we treat others kindly with dignity and respect, and that's what I intend to do.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Respect
Dialogue
Dignity
Discourse
Sure
Civil
Elevate
Whatever
Intend
Treat
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A lot of people feel left out by a government that taxes too much and regulates them too heavily and seems to result in a set of circumstances where economic and political incumbents benefit at everybody else's expense.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Government
Circumstances
Economic
Left
Seems
Too Much
Government Political People
Political People Feel
Benefit
Set
Expense
Result
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You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Class
Influence
Middle
Middle Class
Six
Surround
Ten
Government Better People
Counties
Washington
Seem
Squeezed
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The founding generation would be amazed. It would be surprised. I think it would be very impressed by what has happened since then in terms of our exploding population; in terms of the success of this country economically and otherwise.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Amazed
Exploding
Founding
Impressed
Population
Economically
Surprised
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We've got tax and regulatory policies in this country that are driving a lot of businesses overseas, and so I think there's a lot that we can do using principles of constitutionally limited government to help address people who share these concerns.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Limited Government
Principles
Government People Country
Address
Concerns
Government Country People
Policies
Regulatory
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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.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
War
Balanced
Balanced Budget
Barbaric
Congress
Deficit
Deficit Spending
Perpetual
Practice
Representation
Spending
Taxation
Thinking
American People
Budget
Won
Fought
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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.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Better Place
Candidates
Congress
Limited Government
Mindset
Ought
Government Believe Better
Elections
More People
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We ought to have more people who believe in constitutionall y 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.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Believe
Philosophy
Thinking
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What I am saying is that Donald Trump can still get a lot of votes from a lot of conservatives like me, but I would like some assurances on where he's going to stand his ground. I'd like some assurances that he's going to be a vigorous defender for the U.S. Constitution.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Vigorous
Conservatives
Defender
Donald
Donald Trump
I Am Me Stand
Votes
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I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Eight
Federalism
Forgotten
Founders
Indian
Iroquois
Taught
Power People Control
Idea
Central
Chief
Confederacy
Power Control People
Local
Powers
Story
Tell
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If we were all to chase every squirrel that comes running along in the form of a personal dispute or a mischaracterization of someone, or someone's integrity or intent, we'd be very busy doing that and not focusing on the government, on that which we need to reform internally.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Running
Government
Busy
Form
Integrity
Reform
Doing
Chase
Dispute
Focusing
Intent
Personal
Squirrel
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Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions of applicants who seek to come here lawfully. Additionally, the framework carves out a special exception for agricultural workers that has little justification.
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America
Goal
Safety
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You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Government
Accountability
Economy
Investment
Natural
Play
Taken
Basis
Capital
Cause
Invest
Forces
Individuals
Operate
Voluntary
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That's why we have senators and members of congress from every state. That's why we have elections. Because the people speak and there are different viewpoints out there. It doesn't mean just because we're members of one party or another, doesn't mean that we behave monolithically. It means that we will express our view points.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Mean
Party
Views
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Do we want more of the same regulatory mission creep that has helped to harm America's poor and middle class? Do we want more of the policies that have stifled growth? Or do we want something else, something different, something that focuses on the need to reevaluate the size, the scope, the cost, the reach of the federal government?
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Cost
Federal Government
Growth
Harm
Middle Class
Scope
Size
Creep
Helped
Mission
Policies
Reach
Reevaluate
Regulatory
Something Else
Stifled
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The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Freedom
Data
Talking
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