96 Quotes by Joe Barton

It's important that the American people have full confidence in the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Zerhouni has done an admirable job addressing a difficult, yet critical, issue.

They look at it like trading futures, trading oil, trading gas, trading corn -- pick a commodity.

So far, a lot of it has been vague but they are now going to flesh out the details.

I'm a free-market guy. I come from an oil state. I am not anti-oil, by any stretch. But I don't want to see people get ripped off just because they're scared and retailers think they can just jack up the price.

I'm very disappointed to learn that, four years later, we still have a problem with interoperability,

In 1981, there were 324 operating refineries in the boundaries of the United States. Today there are 148. Do the math. There are a lot of reasons for it, but one of the reasons is the law as it exists today, ... What company's board of directors in its right mind would want to go through this complicated process and tie up billions of dollars for years and years if they weren't certain whether this process would wrap up in a timely fashion?

Initially, we took the administration policy and put it in the bill just to clarify and give certainty to the industry on what they could and couldn't do, ... But I have agreed to do hearings in committee, and go through the regular process, and bring it to the floor later this year as a stand-alone bill or as a part of another piece of legislation.

If I were a dues-paying member of the Jockeys' Guild, ... I'd want some new management.

If you want to see real shortages and a black market, then put price controls back on,