Dan Webster

“Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mention...”

“There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.”

“My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.”

“I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they...”

“If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the...”

“When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.”

“It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.”

“The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.”

“The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.”

“Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'”

“Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.”

“I was told freshman Republicans don't get their bills heard.”

“The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the...”

“The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.”

“I'm a homing pigeon. When I'm in Tallahassee, I give everything I have to being, hopefully, the best legislator I can be. When I'm home, I'm home. I try to not do legislative stuff. That bri...”

“You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.”

“I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.”

“I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much...”

“You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we...”

“I'm a plodder, not a planner.”