If someone came into my home and wanted to arrest me for murder, that would be far less traumatizing to me than someone coming in and taking my 7-year-old twins. – Trent Franks
When you don’t have a voice like Michele Bachmann’s, who personifies all of the good things that the Tea Party has come to mean to America, then it’s more difficult to have any sort of unified or representative message with the same profile in the media. – Trent Franks
America has some capabilities that Israel doesn’t have. And Israel cannot place their security in the hands of Barack Obama; they can’t do it. – Trent Franks
The Muslim Brotherhood membership includes designated terrorist organizations like Hamas. – Trent Franks
At present, it’s not really clear who is in charge of protecting the nation from solar and nuclear EMP. – Trent Franks
I think if you hearken back to partial-birth abortion… everybody said, you know, it’s not constitutional. It can’t pass; it can’t go anywhere, and it took time to do that, and it even had to succeed a presidential veto. But it eventually did. – Trent Franks
Every U.S. citizen should have the assurance that the U.S. government will come vigorously to their defense in a time of need, especially when they are unjustly tried in a foreign country. – Trent Franks
Class-action lawsuits should allow those with serious injuries to have their own day in court. The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act would do just that. – Trent Franks
It’s a strong country, but Mr. Obama seems to be doing everything he can to hold it back. – Trent Franks
The Obama Justice Department has decided to cease the prosecution of the Muslim Brotherhood’s U.S.-based front groups, identified as unindicted coconspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case – the largest terrorism finance case in U.S. history. – Trent Franks
The last thing I saw Gabrielle Giffords do on the floor of the House of Representatives was to line up like the rest of us and read a part of the Constitution. And unbeknownst to her, when she got to the well, her part was the First Amendment. – Trent Franks
Open Society Foundations is essentially another name for George Soros, who is a committed leftist, one-world-government ideologue. – Trent Franks
I’m a big defense hawk and a big fiscal conservative, but in this case, Pakistan continues to imprison the man who gave us Osama bin Laden and continue to have a major ideological bent within the middle echelons of their government that, I think, should cause all of us pause given the size and nature of their nuclear arsenal. – Trent Franks
The United States Constitution does not one time even mention marriage. It neither requires Congress or the states to adopt same-sex marriage laws nor does it forbid them from maintaining traditional marriage laws. – Trent Franks
My own wife is from the Philippines and came here legally to this country, and there are a lot of people that want to be part of this nation, and I want them to be part of this nation. – Trent Franks
If lenders are forced to scale back student lending because private student loans are subject to bankruptcy discharge, many students will be denied access to higher education. – Trent Franks
False Claims Act violators who self-report generally receive the same penalties and face the same damages as those who are caught. I think this makes very little sense. – Trent Franks
Our focus should be on the more than 70 cures and treatments that have been successfully produced from other forms of stem cell research that do not destroy a human life. – Trent Franks
Religious minority communities in India have endured incidents of harassment, discrimination, intimidation and violent attacks for decades, often with little hope for justice. – Trent Franks
A big goal of the liberal Democrats in Congress is to try to do away with any effective cooperation to enforce federal immigration laws. – Trent Franks
Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the… most stimulative to the economy. – Trent Franks
When it comes to our children, the most precious treasure God ever gives us, we protect them with a little sign that says, ‘No guns allowed.’ – Trent Franks
The Muslim Brotherhood’s declaration of war against the United States is real, and the Obama Administration is again asleep at the wheel, continuing a policy of self-destruction. – Trent Franks
The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior’s principles to human government. – Trent Franks
The comment that I’ve made is that if unaccompanied minors can cross the border, then certainly trained terrorists probably can, too. – Trent Franks
