68 Quotes by Dan Webster

I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.

I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.

I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.

I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.

If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.

I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.