Political Quotes

“I thank Mr. Clyde and the Speaker for your service to our great country. I don't have any notes for this, but I do want to say the ATF, to me, is the swamp. Now, here we have a group of unelected bureaucrats, dadgummit, that have taken upon themselves to interpret a law. It always reminds me, when I was in Nashville one time. I was sitting at the Crown Plaza across the street from the Capitol with one of my dear friends who just passed away; his name was Tom Hensley. He was called the Golden Goose. He was the liquor lobbyist. I never voted for his bills, but he always liked me. He told me one time, a guy came up and threatened him that worked for our Governor and threatened him; and he sat there, and he chomped on his cigar; and he walked away and he said--Burchett, he said, you know what? He said, in a few more years he will be gone and the old goose will still be sitting here. That is exactly, exactly the mentality of the swamp. It is not like on an episode of The Simpsons where they are all--six people are sitting around at a table in the old cartoon, and they are deciding what is going on. It is a bunch of unelected, arrogant bureaucrats who think they know what is best for this country. Dadgummit, the ATF has overstepped their bounds once again. Law- abiding Americans, law-abiding citizens, law-abiding Tennesseans should not be deemed criminal because of some bureaucratic whim.…”