John Rice Carter

I think it is a crime to create a class of people to whom we would be automatically saying, 'Congratulations, you are in the Army. You get to go bankrupt.'

As we ramp up forces in Afghanistan, how do we do that without giving that perception that we are an invader.

I think the junkyard Soviet equipment that is in Afghanistan today gives a pretty good indication of that.

This has been an ongoing issue, we have talked about it today, and we talk about it just about every time we get you guys in here.

We are very excited at Fort Hood that we are going to have a new hospital in 2010.

It is absolutely the highest privilege of my professional life to serve those that serve our country in uniform.

Thank you for what you do. You do a great job.

He charged a small group of energy planners, James Schlessinger, to produce a comprehensive energy plan in 90 days.

I said, I wanted to ask your opinion on gasoline prices. This lady started crying. She said, I am a single mom. I have got three kids, two of which I have to transport to everything that they go to. I don't want to deprive my children of…

Absolutely. Transformed it completely. It's a joy to be in Medellin, it really is. And, you know, the Medellin cartels are gone, and they are prospering. And, you know, they talked to us and they said, look, we are trying to stand up for…

I want to point that out because I think that's a lot of what the American people think about Colombia when it comes to their mind, they think of that movie and that book. And I am pleased to say that I was very pleasantly surprised to…

Hearing the comments of Dr. Gingrey, I was at the Vets for Freedom rally this morning, and someone read an e-mail that they had received from a captain in the field, and he said, it went something like this, I started my morning at…

When I went back home this past month, all over my district the main thing I heard from the people on Iraq, get the politics out of it and just tell us the truth of what you know and let us try to figure it all out together, and why don't…

When we had these scandals, and we had the debate last term of Congress about this airdropping, this appropriations process, the public asked us to put what we were doing under a microscope and then let them see it. That's what we are…

I am very proud to have the help of the Democrats on the other side of the aisle in continuing this debate because I think it is important that we hear from all sides. In fact, that is what this is all about. We keep talking about us, but…

The reason we are in this debate today, one of the reasons, is we have created a process where instead of 435 people will meet their constitutional obligation of their oath to determine how the earmarks will be spent, we have narrowed it…

Absolutely. And you hit on a very good point, and I thank the gentleman for yielding. The point that you hit on is that there are people that are trying to do it the right way, that have been waiting patiently to do this the right way in…

These soldiers have gone over there voluntarily. You know, one of the things that I think is a misconception that seems to be played out both in our coverage in the media and in the comments that we hear from our colleagues across the…

I think they told us that that $25 million was all food stamps was ever going to cost us. I don't even know what the number is, the billions of dollars that we are into that now. These programs do tend to have a life of their own. I thank…

Right now you are talking about $350 million. If this program continues the way most programs that we breathe life into in Congress, then it will continue to grow like mushrooms after a rain, and at some point in time, this theoretically…

I apologize to my colleague, Mr. Gohmert. I didn't hear all of the benefits because I came in on the tail-end, but you and I have talked about this briefly. But this training and finding jobs benefit, would that include being able to get a…

This Second Chance Act is a very new concept in criminal justice from my viewpoint. When you point out that we are actually going to create a series of benefits for people who have committed felony crimes that are not available to the…

I think that Americans clearly have a stake in a stable Middle East. If they don't realize they have a stake, they will know it when they go to the pump, if that region goes into turmoil. They will know it. You know, it's sad to have to…

We did discuss this last week, and this plan was good hearted. It was designed to help children. But some of our States said, wait a minute, here is our chance, this is free health care from the Federal Government for our State. Let's just…

And the grandparents. In fact, let's just make it health care for everybody in our State that falls in this category. This is like the Federal Government, and now they have got a shortfall, which that is not kind of hard to figure out if…