John Barrasso Quotes

I haven't changed any of my investments since I've been in the Senate and haven't purchased any stocks since I've been in the Senate.

We can't have a third Obama term, which is what electing Hillary Clinton would do.

The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.

My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.

For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I've been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.

My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

We need to focus on getting people back to work, focus on jobs, the economy, the debt and the spending. That's what will improve the quality of life for American families and for hard-working taxpayers.

There is going to be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East if Iran gets a nuclear weapon. And you are going to see it in Egypt, in Turkey, in the Emirates. All of those people will want that.

Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.

EPA has a long history of relying on science that was not created by the agency itself. This often means that the science is not available to the public and, therefore, cannot be reproduced and verified.

I'm fortunate to live in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful, pristine places in the world.

In an agreement with China, President Obama has already pledged to reduce America's net greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 25% by 2025. In return, China has agreed to 'peak' its carbon-dioxide emissions in 2030.

ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance.

I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

Russia's actions in Syria are not the only reasons to distrust Mr. Putin. Moscow has opposed attempts by the U.N. in November 2011 to increase sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear program.

Keystone would allow us to transport 700,000 barrels of oil a day from our northern neighbor Canada to refineries in the United States.

Humans are contributing to additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

A nuclear armed Iran makes the world less safe, less stable, less secure.

The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.

I've operated on people from Canada that have come to Wyoming for me to take care of them because they couldn't afford to wait long enough for their free operation.

Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.

There are billions of barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf. There is even more in Alaska. There is enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years. The Democrats say all this American energy is off limits.

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

I have to tell you as a doctor, 25 years of practice, not as a politician using talking points, as somebody who has taken care of Medicare patients, we can make it a lot better.

I'm somebody's who's in favor of transparency and openness.

When the Obama administration announced its 'reset' of relations with Russia in 2009, Americans never expected that it would include making Vladimir Putin the de facto U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2013.

As a doctor who took care of patients for 25 years, I saw the problems with America's health care system every day.

It will be up to Congress to check the president's ambition of committing the U.S. to an international green scheme that will produce little or no return.

Energy is called 'the master resource' for a reason.

The whole future, I think, of Wyoming and the economy has to do with coal and our clean coal technology, and we're going to have the ability here in Wyoming to deal with all of the things of this so-called climate change.

We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken.

Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.

You want to continue with the social safety net: the good, the bad and the ugly parts of that, you have to have a vibrant economy. You have to have growth of the economy.

Whenever Washington makes a one-size-fits-all decision, it doesn't work in states all around the country.

I'm child of immigrants.

We keep spending money and sending it overseas when we should be developing American energy.

We need to level the playing field so that people who buy insurance individually at the same tax rates as those who buy it than get it through work. We need to be able to let people to shop across state lines for better deals with insurance that works for them and their family, not something the government says they have to have.

Each and every day, more people pay the price of Obamacare's mountain of mandates. As I travel across the country, I continue to hear from Americans who want Washington to take its hands off of their healthcare.

President Obama wants a climate deal and is willing to pay dearly to get it.

The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.

The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.

Instead of giving preference to oil imported from overseas, Washington should look to North American coal, oil shale and oil sands, all of which provide an affordable, abundant and alternative source of fuel. In addition to increasing cost effectiveness options for the government, it will also increase America's energy security.

I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.

America is facing a looming shortage of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants.

Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror.

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

The Russians continue to say that they'll still go after terrorists, but that's a very elastic term. They're going after anybody they want. I don't trust them.

As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.

The priority is to put bills on the president's desk that will move the country forward.

Americans want real solutions and good jobs.

I'm telling you, as a doctor who spent about half of his time in the office taking care of our seniors on Medicare, it is a program that intentions to work are much better than the way it's working today in terms of practicality.