Jim Jordan Quotations

Ultimately, voters are going to decide a small-town physician from a small and atypical state is probably not qualified to lead this nation in a dangerous world.

Like every campaign, we'll be adjusting our campaign schedule on an as-appropriate basis. We're certainly not suspending all of our activities, but we will, of course, be sensitive to tone, to taste, to the national mood, and making scheduling decisions accordingly.

Obamacare is bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor, and that's what Americans most dislike about this legislation.

I am very concerned about anything that says 'revenue' because let's just be honest; revenue for Democrats has become code for tax increases.

Given the manner in which this hearing has been arranged, members have raised the possibility of not attending.

From almost every standpoint -- the national political environment, the state political environments, recruiting, retention, fundraising -- Democratic candidates are in exceedingly strong shape. Because of the map, a flip in either chamber is significantly harder, but you can certainly see how it's done.

He was an underdog all the way. It was real surprising for him to finish second.

He reminded Democratic activists this week how talented he is and how good he can be.

Here's the thing Washington always misses. Washington always wants a deal. America wants a solution. Americans sent us here to solve problems.

Here's the final word from a giant of American jurisprudence on the methods, motives and ethics of Ken Starr.

He's easily the most powerful Republican on Capitol Hill, and nobody's in his weight class. He exerts the kind of discipline that hasn't been seen in decades.

He was one of my boys. He was just one of those scrappy little kids, who wouldn't give up. He worked hard, he trained hard and he maintained his training.

He did his best, and cleverly, to imply that he's sympathetic to Roe and its value as precedent. But we'd be foolish to take his testimony as an assurance that he's supportive of the right to choice or even the more fundamental right to privacy.

I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.

I was kind of nervous because I didn't know how the team would react when I came back.

Paying for hurricane relief on the backs of the poor is not going to be a winning issue for Republicans. It's like they wake up every day determined to reinforce their own negative stereotypes.

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.

We've got some challenges, but I think we've got the capability to be a North Carolina School of Excellence, ... I don't know how long that will take, but it can be done.

We need to think beyond the next election and we need to go on the offensive NOW. Simply put we need to be strategic and long term and beat them at their own game.

When we're done, piping plover and habitat will still be out there. The consensus is, if we do nothing, the habitat is going to go away.

What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point out all the time. Remember, bad guys aren't stupid, they're just bad.

The good news is he's not talking about his indicted chief of staff or ordering the leaking of classified information.

we knew he had his work cut out for him.

We don't want to turn him into a martyr,

You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy.

There's no pressure on us. We know they like to play fast. We just have to go in there and do a good job on the backboards.

The terrain has just shifted dramatically. Bush is not in the same place, personally or politically. The public is better informed and less scared.

Presidential campaigns have an awful lot to do with a sense of authenticity, and Romney's image seems to be, 'Pay no attention to anything I've previously said in my political life. I was only lying and pandering then.'

A lot of the producers don't want to get into marketing and shipping it to the end user, that's not their thing. But this is a particularly good niche to be in for the next few years. It's going to be unbelievable.

They don't grow a lot of corn in New York or New Jersey. It's going to be a very profitable situation. Kansas is obviously pretty well positioned.

It was driven by a petulance and frustration, and it had the tone of a president with an approval rating of 35 percent. He's sounding less statesmanlike when he needs to seem more.

For better or worse, our side is now much more reliant on extra-party institutions to do our core political business. There are two political cultures, each with their own economies.

It's a pretty predictable move from a politically crippled president. Toss out a judicial extremist to pacify his base and provoke a fight that he hopes changes the subject away from indictments and Iraq and Katrina and a soft economy.

The bad news is he's talking about shooting a man, blaming the victim and covering it up.

It's difficult to go from all-run to being balanced. We're taking the shots, and Al's got the arm and the vision. The O-line played great, too.

I've heard from physicians just out and about that they have a real reluctance to deal with the whole Medicare program unless it's fixed.

They are tough to match up with on the inside.

In a sense these are two guys who have never stopped running they have never gotten out of campaign mode.

If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.

By the end of the first quarter we knew that we could hang with them. I think our aggressiveness was better than theirs, but it was tough to match them inside.

For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise as weakness, and they punish it rather than reward or reciprocate it.

This administration, this agency, the very agency charged with enforcing Obamacare, systematically targeted groups that came into existence because they opposed Obamacare - and they started the targeting the very month, March 2010, that Obamacare came into law - expects us to believe it is the work of two rogue agents in Cincinnati.

The truth is, our corporate income taxes are some of the highest in the world, and frankly, in my judgment it's unpatriotic if you're not for reducing the corporate income tax. We want to make it so American companies are on a more level playing field competing with companies around the world.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

Americans can live with the fact that good people sometimes give their lives for this country, but what they can't take, what they can't live with is when their government is not square with them.