82 Quotes by Blake Farenthold

I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.

We all went up to Washington on a mission to change things. What I found is that the Founding Fathers set it up where it's a little more difficult to do. We've got the Senate and the president to deal with.

I went in with the youthful vigor that I could single-handedly change the world. But you fast come to the realization that you're 1/435th of one-half of one-third of the government.

Nobody in the Washington regulatory bureaucracy gets fired for saying no.

As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do is put the brakes on. Imagine going real fast in a Flintstones car, and my heel is out there. I went to Washington to change the world, and all I can do is put my heel out.

If you are just using the service to look at Web sites and download e-mail, then a DSL line may be cheaper. It is when you have more data going out that wireless can make a difference.

The government was built on compromising. And it's frustrating as hell.

Companies that are hosting Web sites or do a lot of teleconferencing need a lot of bandwidth going both ways.

One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.