Cory Gardner Quotes

Hemp has the potential to be a major boon to Colorado agriculture, giving farmers another viable and profitable option for their fields.

- Cory Gardner

We have antiquated policies that were put in place in the 1970s that prohibit us from exporting our crude oil, yet we have allies around the globe asking the United States to provide them with a stable supply of energy.

- Cory Gardner

Besides the conventional military threats, North Korean cyber capabilities are growing.

- Cory Gardner

We hear people talk about putting a price on carbon, but they won't talk about how much that price of carbon is.

- Cory Gardner

There's an old saying in politics: You never run the same race twice. Democrats are running the same race three, four, five times. It's an old ploy, and Coloradans see through it.

- Cory Gardner

The Trans-Pacific Partnership has the potential to reshape America's relationship with the nations of the Pacific Rim, enhance U.S. leadership in this critically important region, and provide a major boost to our economy.

- Cory Gardner

I have signed the personhood petition. I have taken the petitions to my church and circulating into my church. And I have a legislative record that backs up my support for life.

- Cory Gardner

Republicans have always talked about having a big tent, but it doesn't do any good if the tent doesn't have any chairs in it. Bringing Latinos to the forefront, bringing women in is absolutely critical.

- Cory Gardner

I am glad that our country is starting to have a serious conversation about how to repair our broken immigration system - it is long overdue.

- Cory Gardner

Sen. Udall can only talk about one thing: He's a social issues warrior.

- Cory Gardner

Mark Udall wants to run a social issues campaign. He definitely wants to run as the social issues candidate.

- Cory Gardner

The bottom line is a record of ideas. The bottom line is a plan for how to get this country back on track. It's not about attendance - it's about goals and opportunity to move this nation forward.

- Cory Gardner

I used to play against a high school football team that always used to run the single wing. And eventually, other teams figured out that they ran the single wing. And so they prepared for it. The Democrats are stuck running the single wing.

- Cory Gardner

As a result of the strategic patience policy, we now have North Korea testing four times an atomic weapon; they've violated numerous United Nations sanctions, U.S. sanctions by launching ballistic missile tests.

- Cory Gardner

From what we understand about participation by women and minorities, we need to do a better job of exposing people early in their careers to STEM fields.

- Cory Gardner

The Republican Party has to be the party of optimism and giving our children a better starting point. We have to make sure we're broader, more inclusive, and reaching out to every community.

- Cory Gardner

The Keystone Pipeline would create good-paying jobs. Not only where the pipeline is being built, good-paying construction jobs, but manufacturing and service opportunities in Colorado along with the Keystone Pipeline.

- Cory Gardner

We would create thousands of jobs in Colorado if the Keystone Pipeline were to be built.

- Cory Gardner

Nobody expected Darryl Glenn to win, and he's won every time.

- Cory Gardner

I've tried to convince members of my party that we should not allow the hair on the backs of our necks to bristle every time somebody mentions renewable energy.

- Cory Gardner

He's a nice guy who will never change the Senate. He is the Senate. Eighteen years in politics, and he's got two cousins who are senators, too. Mark Udall's dad even ran for president.

- Cory Gardner

We're doing everything we can to solidify my base of support in the 4th Congressional district.

- Cory Gardner

It's time for Republicans to rally behind this campaign in order to put forth the best candidate to stop Hillary Clinton in November. I am confident Ted Cruz is that person, and I'm thrilled to endorse him for president.

- Cory Gardner

Ted Cruz caught the momentum in Wisconsin that I think that Donald Trump thought was his and his alone.

- Cory Gardner

Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.

- Cory Gardner

When it comes to the environment in our own backyard, we understand it far better than anybody in Washington D.C.

- Cory Gardner

Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.

- Cory Gardner

I've made sure that I've stood for privacy and the rights of the people time and time again.

- Cory Gardner

We're thinking of creating a board of experts across the sectors of industry, to identify successful programs and to make recommendations about programs that are working and aren't working.

- Cory Gardner

To say that we should engage in some hypothetical about, 'Will I vote for Trump,' that's defeatist. I'm not going to be a defeatist.

- Cory Gardner

I think Donald Trump has a significant number of issues where he is not a Republican.

- Cory Gardner

I look forward to continuing to hear what Donald Trump has to say about his vision for this country.

- Cory Gardner

I don't think Donald Trump is going to be our nominee.

- Cory Gardner

I think the climate is changing, but I don't believe humans are causing that change to the extent that's been in the news.

- Cory Gardner

I oppose the personhood amendment. Years ago I'd said that I'd supported it - it was the wrong idea. Looking at it, talking to people of Colorado, I don't support it.

- Cory Gardner

There is no such thing as a federal personhood bill.

- Cory Gardner

I do not support legislation that would ban birth control.

- Cory Gardner

I'm not going to speculate about legislation that I haven't seen before.

- Cory Gardner

What's the difference between me and Mark Udall on contraception? I believe the pill ought to be available over the counter, around the clock, without a prescription. Cheaper and easier for you.

- Cory Gardner

Funding for women's healthcare must actually go to fund women's healthcare, not to line the coffers of an organization under increased scrutiny for reprehensible, inhumane behavior.

- Cory Gardner

While our nation's attention is rightly focused on the Middle East, the North Korean threat has grown exponentially, while there seems to be a falling asleep, so to speak, at the switch when it comes to North Korea.

- Cory Gardner

The overwhelming majority of Coloradans don't want Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States or Colorado.

- Cory Gardner

If you look at the Constitution, the two clauses of the Constitution make it very clear the president shall nominate, and the Senate shall provide advice and consent. It's been since 1888 that a Senate of a different party than the president in the White House confirmed a Supreme Court nominee.

- Cory Gardner

I think a 'no' vote is giving the victor, whoever that may be, the win without your participation.

- Cory Gardner

Now, President Obama has to make a decision. He can either propose a nominee who can win over the majority in the Senate or defer his choice to the voters, who in November will elect a new President and a new Senate, which will be responsible for confirming a nominee who will provide balance to the Supreme Court.

- Cory Gardner

Any nominee is going to have to earn my support.

- Cory Gardner

Senator Udall focused his entire campaign as a social-issues warrior, and that was rejected by the people of Colorado, who embraced our plan of creating jobs and opportunity, growing energy independence, looking at education opportunities for the future, and making sure we're focused on protecting this great Colorado environment.

- Cory Gardner

One of the things that's always amazed me about people who attack me, saying I'm opposed to renewable energy, is I'm pretty sure I'm the only Republican who had an energy bill vetoed by a Republican governor.

- Cory Gardner

I will say this - I certainly will not be voting for Hillary Clinton.

- Cory Gardner

I think Republicans are going to do better than Hillary Clinton any time of the day.

- Cory Gardner

If Barack Obama weren't a U.S. citizen, I'm sure Bill and Hillary Clinton would have figured that out by now.

- Cory Gardner

We got to protect Medicaid.

- Cory Gardner

The fact is, our men and women in uniform, the bravest in the world, did everything they could to protect this country from a terror threat and to protect others from the terror threat that was Saddam Hussein. And nobody can deny that we are in a better place because Saddam Hussein is dead.

- Cory Gardner

We have to protect the rights of the American people.

- Cory Gardner

Every member of the Senate has a constitutional duty to follow the Constitution and to uphold the Constitution.

- Cory Gardner

We can't disrespect people for having a different opinion.

- Cory Gardner

There is no doubt that pollution contributes to the climate changing around us, but what I refuse to do is support a climate tax bill like Waxman/Markey put in place that would have cost farmers and ranchers in the state, that would cost small business the opportunity to grow, that would increase that bills that families pay, $1,700 a year.

- Cory Gardner

The idea we would create some kind of religious test for entry into the country is absolutely wrong.

- Cory Gardner

If China is doing business with a company that ends up putting money back into proliferation activities, then we'll sanction that company and China.

- Cory Gardner

Mark Udall votes with President Obama 99 percent of the time.

- Cory Gardner

Industrial hemp is a safe substance with many practical commercial applications.

- Cory Gardner

Any proposal that allows people who are here illegally to cut to the front of the line is amnesty.

- Cory Gardner

This isn't a Republican issue. This isn't a Democrat issue. This is something that both parties and people around the country have agreed to. They don't want Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States.

- Cory Gardner

Guantanamo Bay is a facility that I think should be utilized by the United States for detainees, say, out of Syria.

- Cory Gardner

Quite frankly, I'm running a campaign on the economy and jobs and economic opportunities for the American people.

- Cory Gardner

I think the American people aren't looking for loyalty amongst candidates to other candidates. What the American people are looking for is loyalty to the American people.

- Cory Gardner

Anytime you present a message that is seen as hate, you're going to have a negative impact.

- Cory Gardner

Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator.

- Cory Gardner

The president named Obama is probably not going to repeal the bill that's named after him.

- Cory Gardner

A lot of nasty things were said about me in my own party about my unwillingness to demand the government shutdown.

- Cory Gardner

Any immigration-reform effort must begin first with border security and enforcement of the law.

- Cory Gardner

I urge Congress to quickly take up and pass trade promotion authority so we can conclude a TPP agreement. Our position in the world depends on it.

- Cory Gardner

We have a responsibility to be responsible stewards of tax dollars.

- Cory Gardner

There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria right now.

- Cory Gardner

There are far too many politicians out there who take the wrong position and stick with it and never admit that they should do something different.

- Cory Gardner

Our country needs a new generation of leadership, and I believe that Marco Rubio presents this nation with the greatest possibilities and opportunities to meet the challenges of the next generation.

- Cory Gardner

America is a nation of laws, and it is wrong for Congresswoman Markey to propose bending the rules for a group of people whose first act in this country was to break the law.

- Cory Gardner

I'm not going to defend Sen. Udall's failed record.

- Cory Gardner

I believe the climate is changing.

- Cory Gardner

This is a government program run amok, and we owe it to the taxpayers to find out exactly what happened before Eagle-Net wastes any more money.

- Cory Gardner

What can we do to put more Colorado in Washington and less Washington in Colorado?

- Cory Gardner

I don't think it is ever enough for a governing majority to simply be opposed to things. We have to be for things.

- Cory Gardner

There's no time, place, or purpose of a government shutdown or default.

- Cory Gardner

Let's put Coloradans in charge; let's put Westerners in charge of the West.

- Cory Gardner

We just can't stay in a safe Republican seat and sit back and watch while this country goes down the wrong path.

- Cory Gardner

We must pursue immigration reform - it's something we have to do, something that starts with border security.

- Cory Gardner

The RNC had been incredibly supportive of my efforts in 2014... I couldn't have won without them.

- Cory Gardner

My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.

- Cory Gardner

I guess the news is this: If you're a Republican and you smile, liberals don't like it. Maybe that's because Democrats are afraid that I've been able to show an optimistic vision for this country.

- Cory Gardner

I don't get everything right the first time.

- Cory Gardner

I've learned to listen. I don't get everything right the first time.

- Cory Gardner

We have a number of challenges ahead of us.

- Cory Gardner

I think people need to be treated with respect, and that's what we've demanded from everyone.

- Cory Gardner