I'm not going to sell Donald Trump short. I think the American people saw something in him.

There is no Republican out there who wants a Hillary Clinton presidency.

We all want to raise our children well.

Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.

We've got the power of the purse in the Congress.

With President Obama restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, the immigration preferential treatment given to Cubans... no longer makes sense.

My subcommittee will be thoroughly investigating this issue and demanding answers from Census officials on allegations that the Census Bureau is changing the wording of survey questions used to determine our nation's annual report on health insurance coverage.

Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.

The census should not be political.

I've got a quad copter on my Christmas list, as I suspect quite a few people do.

Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?

The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?

How is having every phone call that I make to my wife, to my daughter, relevant to any terror investigation?

I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.

If I were to leave Congress and want to start Farenthold TV, it would be very difficult. The fewer players there are, the fewer the opportunities to build a big enough audience to get on.

You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.

I would consider it to be immoral to take a paycheck when the people in the federal government are not.

I've already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.

The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.

Hillary Clinton and her media machine try to dismiss, but anybody who understands anything about how email works - and this is millennials in particular, who grew up on the Internet - know that you're an idiot to keep sensitive information on a server in your house.

The pro-immigration people are really having a fit saying that I don't care about the children.

I did vote to defund the Obama program that defers deporting the so-called DREAMers, because that was the president's decision, and the president shouldn't unilaterally get to decide what laws to enforce or not enforce.

I believe that the kids are innocent victims in this. We spent money educating them. Many of them don't speak a word of Spanish, and we're thinking of deporting them. That doesn't make sense.

The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.