82 Quotes by Blake Farenthold

The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.

I've already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.

I would consider it to be immoral to take a paycheck when the people in the federal government are not.

You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.

If I were to leave Congress and want to start Farenthold TV, it would be very difficult. The fewer players there are, the fewer the opportunities to build a big enough audience to get on.

I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.

How is having every phone call that I make to my wife, to my daughter, relevant to any terror investigation?

The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?

Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?