Mike Conaway: “Too many, clearly. There are not a lot of lines created or spoken here that many people quote. The inaugural address…”

“Too many, clearly. There are not a lot of lines created or spoken here that many people quote. The inaugural address produces great lines. It is not what you do for your country, all those kinds of lines that come out. I do not know of anything spoken here that many people quote. Lincoln said, and I will butcher this, but I think he said in his Gettysburg Address, the world will little remember what is said here. As it turns out, he was wrong, but I think that is exactly what happened here. In West Texas, I suspect, and in central Pennsylvania as well as Kentucky, talk is cheap, but what we do here is important and it is remembered. When we vote, as we did last week, to abrogate contracts with the Federal Government, when we vote, as we did last week, to tell people who have business deals with this Federal Government you really cannot trust the contract because if it begins to look like you are making a little money off this contract, some Member of Congress will think that is a bad idea and they will convince a party, maybe both parties, to take and redo that contract. When we vote, as we did two weeks ago, to say there are some lives in this country, they are not particularly important, lives on the front end of creation, that is remembered. That is important. That has an impact on what we do.”