68 Quotes by Dan Webster

Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.

My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.

I was told freshman Republicans don't get their bills heard.

I would like to give evidence we can lead. And I think the only way we can do that is to unify the diversity of the party.

We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.

We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.