Roy Blunt quotes
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“I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.”
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“There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth.”
-- Roy BluntSource : "Christian Leaders Condemn Hate Crimes Bill" by Connie Hair, humanevents.com. April 29, 2009.
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“Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.”
-- Roy BluntSource : "French Jokes Gain Wide Audiences" by Sharon Kehnemui, www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2003.
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“I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.”
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“Remember, there are no cuts to Medicaid. Every year in Medicaid, you spend more money than you spent the year before under this plan, but the growth is not as great as it would be if you continued to pay, for instance, 100 percent for single able-bodied adults. Now, there is something wrong with the way that system is put together.”
-- Roy BluntSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“I think health care reform is challenging and challenged. We will see what happens, but this is a difficult topic that touches every American family. And the more members of the Senate and the House both know about it, I think the harder it is to reach that conclusion you would like to get to.”
-- Roy BluntSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.”
-- Roy BluntSource : "Roy Blunt Rallying Support In Congress For Mitt Romney" by Thomas Ferraro, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2012.
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“More that members of Senate know about Medicaid, in many ways, the harder it is to make that final decision, because you have got so much information, and you know how many other things are impacted here by one decision here that, five decisions later, has made a big difference in somebody's life.”
-- Roy BluntSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.”
-- Roy BluntSource : "Obama warns on student loan interest" by Josh Boak, www.politico.com. April 21, 2012.
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“The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.”
-- Roy BluntSource : "Sperling, Blunt, Menendez and Huntsman". "State of the Union", www.realclearpolitics.com. December 18, 2011.
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“I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.”
-- Roy BluntSource : "Roy Blunt undergoes medical procedure" by Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. January 13, 2012.
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“I think, generally, the president's tweets are not helpful to him. At the same time, Donald Trump is figured out a way to communicate with people in ways that no other president has, or he wouldn't be president.”
-- Roy BluntSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“There's no doubt that cable news hosts can say things that the president of the United States shouldn't say, and people can be harsh at you. That doesn't mean you benefit by being harsh back.”
-- Roy BluntSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“I think there needs to be a much more significant filter on those Donald Trump tweets. It's OK to have some unspoken and untweeted thoughts.”
-- Roy BluntSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Electric service providers in Missouri have warned that the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan will raise energy costs for Missourians, reduce jobs, and hurt our state's economic competitiveness. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I've fought hard to ensure provisions that would defund this harmful power grab were included in the final appropriations bill. I also support legislation to block this harmful rule and protect workers and families from the damaging effects of the Obama Administration's executive overreach and costly energy regulations.”
-- Roy BluntSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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“If you're a first-responder in Missouri as part of a fire department, you're three times more likely to respond to a drug overdose than you are a fire. So it's a problem. I don't know exactly what the right number is, but certainly I think members of the Senate and House are rightly concerned about it.”
-- Roy BluntSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“It's a problem that Congress has really taken on in the last couple of years. We tripled the money that was being - to be spent on opioids. Legislation sort of followed that. Then we doubled that tripling. I think, at some point, there's a limit to how many times we can multiply that in a short period of time, but this is a real problem. In Missouri, more people die from drug overdoses than car accidents.”
-- Roy BluntSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.”
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“Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.”
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“Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.”
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“One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.”
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“I'm very much inclined to be a next-chapter guy instead of a last-chapter guy.”
-- Roy BluntSource : "Blunt wins Senate leadership post" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. December 13, 2011.
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“It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.”
-- Roy BluntSource : "Blunt: Budget doesn't go far enough". Interview with James Hohmann and Mike Allen, www.politico.com. February 14, 2011.
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