Heather Wilson Quotations

Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others.

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.

Unlike many graduate fellowships, the Rhodes seeks leaders who will 'fight the world's fight.' They must be more than mere bookworms. We are looking for students who wonder, students who are reading widely, students of passion who are driven to make a difference in the lives of those around them and in the broader world.

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

When you increase the cost of energy, jobs go elsewhere.

A comprehensive national energy policy is critical to our nation's economy and our national security. Energy expenditures account for about 7% percent of our total economy and influence pricing in the much of the rest of the economy.

I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party.

I am considering running for Senate, as well as other opportunities.

If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign.

We've seen claims in the last month that they didn't know until July of this year, and now you're working around the clock to find out what's wrong, ... That's rubbish.  You knew you had a problem a long time ago. You had recalls in 18 countries.  This committee's staff has uncovered memos going back to 1997 where you knew you had a problem and you didn't do anything about it.

Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe National Forest told your agency not to set the fire, ... I'd like to know why they went ahead and did it.

If the government takes your land, they should pay for it,

This wasn't an act of God. It was an act of man,

Junk faxes dried up after that. People stopped doing it,

We have to start from the facts and the place to get those facts is the House Intelligence Committee. This is the beginning of a series of questions and engagement.

We have to have to address this issue, whether it's in this bill or another bill. These organizations are operating outside of the rules.

Thus far our strategy has failed to achieve our political objectives,

The government cannot create wealth, but it can create the environment ... for prosperity,

What happened today was the act of cowards. Often people who do these things scurry back into the gutters they came from. I can say with confidence that we will spare no effort to track down and punish those responsible. It's important for the world to know that our nation will not bow to terrorists and faceless acts of cowardice.

Now is not the time to be simultaneously going forward with a bill on taxes and Medicaid,

There's a growing awareness that Katrina has changed not only the agenda but all the circumstances we find ourselves in,

Congress may very well need to develop legislative solutions to address price gouging,

It lacked all credibility, just as I told them it would,

I oppose amnesty because I don't think people here illegally should get to go to the front of the line, ... But when we have hundreds of thousands of people standing at lines at embassies for the chance to come here and work in this country, laying pavement and picking lettuce in the 120-degree heat, I think we should come up with a system to allow for that.

I have told the leadership I am opposed,

I support creating a nonpartisan Office of Public Integrity. When individual members appear to have broken the rules, they should be investigated by an independent professional. We need a nonpartisan office that can investigate allegations of wrongdoing. Federal agencies have Inspectors General and the executive branch has an Office of Public Integrity. The Congress should be able to police its own members.

I don't think we are doing well in detecting, investigating and responding to ethics violations when they occur.

Border security is a safety issue.

I support legal immigration.

The men who wrote the Constitution feared most a strong Executive with control of a standing army. Our Constitution is set up to protect all of us from tyranny.

The law was written in 1978, pre-cell phone, pre-Internet. We need to do some updating.