79 Quotes by Mike Lee

Before long, the policy of putting quotas on oranges went from bad to worse. A Navel Orange Administrative Committee created by the Department of Agriculture began setting the policy, and Sunkist, a titan in the orange industry, was given outsized influence over the committee.

When an opponent predicted Wilkes would die from either hanging or the pox, Wilkes fired back, “That depends, my Lord, on whether I embrace your lordship’s principles or your mistress.

On another occasion he toasted to the king’s “long life,” only to be questioned by his host, the king’s son and heir, “Since when have you been so anxious about my parent’s health?” Wilkes smiled and said, “Since I had the pleasure of your Royal Highness’s acquaintance.

Nonetheless, under current law, an e-mail is presumed to be abandoned after only 180 days, at which time the government has a statutory right to read it.

By simply refusing to fund a president’s unconstitutional conduct, Congress can stop him dead in his tracks – even after the courts have abdicated their responsibilities to do so.

We can’t legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

The kindest reaction Hamilton received was from Benjamin Franklin. He was asleep. In contrast, Hamilton’s ally James Madison was alert – but with worry in his eyes and woe written across his face.7.

I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.

If we were all to chase every squirrel that comes running along in the form of a personal dispute or a mischaracterization of someone, or someone's integrity or intent, we'd be very busy doing that and not focusing on the government, on that which we need to reform internally.