Dan Webster

You take away the money from Israel? No. That's something we can't do. ”

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 mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.' ”

I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person. ”

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

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful. ”

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. ”

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'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 brings a balance to life. ”

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

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. ”