Joe Barton Quotes

CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.

- Joe Barton

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

- Joe Barton

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.

- Joe Barton

Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.

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I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation reasons and I think mankind has been adapting to climate as long as man has walked the earth.

- Joe Barton

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.

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I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

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Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.

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I am very proud of my public record and the many accomplishments of my office. It has been a tremendous honor to represent the 6th District of Texas for over three decades, but now it is time to step aside and let there be a new voice.

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There are enough people who lost faith in me that it's time to step aside and let there be a new voice for the 6th district in Washington, so I am not going to run for re-election.

- Joe Barton

There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown up here in the United States. They're Americans.

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The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

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If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during a breach. If you try to protect access to it, as opposed to not even making it available, you have less to worry about who will break the wall.

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I think we should drill up in Alaska.

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Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

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You do not need the government to protect open internet; the marketplace was doing it and will continue to do it. All you are doing is adding a burden that does not need to be there.

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I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.

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Texans are by nature independent people.

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Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport.

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It affects you when you get shot at, when your children get shot at. In our case, we had one shooter, a guy from Illinois mad that Trump won, and decided to come to Washington and shoot GOP congressmen.

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The constant abuse of online activity must stop.

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I'm very proud to be a member of the Congress. And I'm proud to serve with people like Mike Doyle.

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I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

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Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.

- Joe Barton