John Rice Carter

We ought not to abandon great improvements in order to seek for perfection, which might cost five or six times as much to build a plant.

I pointed out to the Soviet Union, in a speech, that we would use every resource at our command, not excluding nuclear weapons, to protect America's security.

I think that it is almost necessary to see a single proposal come forward combining energy and environment.

Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and Congress to govern this Nation.

Why have we not been able to get together as a nation and resolve our serious energy problem?

I worked closely with my compadre in the Texas Senate, Senator John Whitmire, who is a Democrat.

Texas has a history of spending lots of money on building prisons.

The vast majority of them said, you know, they had some pretty good redeeming qualities. They just made some terrible mistakes.

I am a conservative Republican. I started asking them where, you know, who are these guys that are out there?

I agree we are not talking about the energy issue right here.

Well, we happen to have a proposal that might. Actually, they are going 200-plus on a proposal.

So the argument that all the weapons that are in Mexico are the fault of the United States gun dealers is stretching the truth a little bit.

It seems to me that the mission we have here is to create a system today that is interoperable for all jurisdictions.

Simply put, interoperability is the right people being able to communicate at the right time.

Your legislation would provide a long-overdue correction of an unfortunate situation that has had a negative impact on military families.

Well, I would hope that we're not all socialists. I have a young man whose wife is from Canada, who works for me. And I'll tell you, he said to me, he said, you know what? I love my wife dearly, but I didn't want to go live in Canada with…

Well, as we look back, and I've heard the chairman of the Appropriations Committee rail in favor of what FDR did in the Great Depression and how successful it was. And yet, right there by his own Secretary of Treasury's admittance, the…

Well, that's a good question. If you'd yield back. That's the kind of thing that we ought to be thinking about. And let's be clear. Some of the things that they're spending money on are good causes and they're causes that ought to be in…

On the commonsense side of this whole thing, this all started, if you remember what you heard from the administration and from our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, this was an infrastructure building bill. That's what we were…

I think the common sense of the American people is boundless, and they know that what goes on in Washington is a whole lot of smoke and mirrors. But when you say something very simple, we're going to spend $280,000 to create a…

This legislation would create, according to the Democrats, 3.7 million jobs. Price tag is $838 billion. This is approximately $280,000 per job.

That's exactly right. The whole point being that it's something, when it worked we were proud to say we got people off welfare and into real jobs. And one of the reasons was because we put a go-to-work provision in that bill. This bill…

Also I hope that the American people understand, those of us who oppose things like omnibus appropriations bills, and I serve on the Appropriations Committee, there's a reason we don't, we want to divide these appropriations bills out and…

A lot of people around here don't like Ronald Reagan. I happen to think he is one of the best men that ever lived. But he made some statements that the American people understand. One of my favorite statements that Ronald Reagan said was…

It pains me to think that little boys and little girls who might be in elementary school are hearing on television and at their breakfast tables comments from their parents: "Everybody in Washington is a crook. Everybody in Washington is…