Joe Baca Quotes

Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality - for the Postal Service and for all Americans.

There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure that they're much more rigorous.

I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing.

ISIS is the most sophisticated terror threat we have ever faced. We are now at a time when we need more tools, not less tools. And that took we lost, the metadata program, was a valuable tool that we no longer have at our disposal.

I don't have to be accountable to some authority, which is why I don't take federal funds. I don't want anyone's monies unless they're monies without strings attached. It's not that we don't need them.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy.

The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.

The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!

I always ask myself, what do I need to prove? I won the fight.

We need somebody with a proven track record of competence, leadership and what you see is what you get.

We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.

Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of posterity.

If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.

What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!

This happens to me every couple of years. I'll look at someone I respect and I'll realize that he's outworking me. It changes the way I behave for the next half decade.

When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

The world doesn't need another Dell or Compaq.

Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself.

If something doesn't turn out as planned, you will ask yourself, 'How did I create that? What was I thinking? What were my beliefs? What did I say or not say? What did I do or not do to create that result? How did I get the other person to act that way? What do I need to do differently next time to get the result I want?'

However well I return, opportunities will probably be few and far and I need to be ruthless.

The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…