“Nobody in the Washington regulatory bureaucracy gets fired for saying ...” — Blake Farenthold Quote

“Nobody in the Washington regulatory bureaucracy gets fired for saying no.”

“As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do is put the brakes on. Imagine going real fast in a Flintstones car, and my heel is out there. I went to Washington to change the world, and all I can do is put my heel out.”

“We have testimony saying, and I think common sense also dictates, that in a failed state like Syria, you don't have any government information, police reports to rely on to vet somebody. So there's no way to do a background check from somebody coming out of Syria. There's no way we can find out whether they're safe or not.”

“I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.”

“I believe in lower taxes. I believe in more efficient government. I believe in reducing bureaucracy. I believe that we shouldn't have lobbyists who can go in or former government workers who can come back and lobby.”

“My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.”