John Carter actually said...

"it was Harry Truman who said if you want a friend in Washington you better buy a dog."

"One of the things government doesn't do well is reward good behavior. It does pretty well at punishing bad behavior but isn't so good at regarding good behavior."

"Eighty-seven percent of all the U.S. construction workforce is nonunion, and I would argue that it is probably more than that in Texas."

"I find quite offensive to our right-to-work States. I don't think the Federal Government should be imposing that upon States."