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John Barrasso Quotes

I’m somebody’s who’s in favor of transparency and openness.

– John Barrasso

Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.

– John Barrasso

Energy is called ‘the master resource’ for a reason.

– John Barrasso

I’m fortunate to live in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful, pristine places in the world.

– John Barrasso

As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama’s unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.

– John Barrasso

The Russians continue to say that they’ll still go after terrorists, but that’s a very elastic term. They’re going after anybody they want. I don’t trust them.

– John Barrasso

You want to continue with the social safety net: the good, the bad and the ugly parts of that, you have to have a vibrant economy. You have to have growth of the economy.

– John Barrasso

For people who don’t know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I’ve been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.

– John Barrasso

An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.

– John Barrasso

When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.

– John Barrasso

I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.

– John Barrasso

The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare’s long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.

– John Barrasso

Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.

– John Barrasso

Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country’s immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.

– John Barrasso

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

– John Barrasso

I’ve been calling for the support of the Syrian rebels for years.

– John Barrasso

ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance.

– John Barrasso

I’ve operated on people from Canada that have come to Wyoming for me to take care of them because they couldn’t afford to wait long enough for their free operation.

– John Barrasso

We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.

– John Barrasso

As the 2016 presidential race kicks off, candidates on both sides of the aisle are promising to stand up for the middle class. Voters deserve to know that anyone who champions Obamacare cannot honestly say she or he is also a champion of middle-class Americans.

– John Barrasso

Everywhere I travel around my home state of Wyoming – but also around the country – I continue to hear, ‘How can Washington make us buy something we don’t want to buy, a product? They can’t tell us to buy breakfast cereal or something else – how can they do that?’

– John Barrasso

What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.

– John Barrasso

The priority is to put bills on the president’s desk that will move the country forward.

– John Barrasso

There are billions of barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf. There is even more in Alaska. There is enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years. The Democrats say all this American energy is off limits.

– John Barrasso

The whole future, I think, of Wyoming and the economy has to do with coal and our clean coal technology, and we’re going to have the ability here in Wyoming to deal with all of the things of this so-called climate change.

– John Barrasso

The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama’s health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.

– John Barrasso

Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to live within our means.

– John Barrasso

We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken.

– John Barrasso

The states ought to be the ones making the decisions about the individual mandate, the employer mandate, all of the different requirements of what kind of insurance people have to have.

– John Barrasso

I’m a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

– John Barrasso

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