“Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence – in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.”
― Bill Flores
“I believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover in Congress.”
― Bill Flores
“I fully recognize we need to improve the path to citizenship, just as we need to value the hard work of folks who become American citizens legally.”
― Bill Flores
“Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.”
― Bill Flores
“America’s history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.”
― Bill Flores
“Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.”
― Bill Flores
“My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn’t advertise that way, and I’m an American first.”
― Bill Flores
“If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we’ll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.”
― Bill Flores
“On Memorial Day, we remember the service of those brave military men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice defending and protecting our freedoms.”
― Bill Flores
“A lot of small towns in Texas have only volunteer fire departments. And even though they’re called volunteer fire departments, they are usually very professional and have great training and usually have good equipment.”
― Bill Flores
“I don’t think ‘nothing’ is a good option.”
― Bill Flores
“It’s better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.”
― Bill Flores
“The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.”
― Bill Flores
“Healthy marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family, and they can raise children in a way that’s best for their future, not only socially but psychologically, economically, from a health perspective.”
― Bill Flores
“All the issues that have come up under the Obama administration would be continued under Hillary Clinton.”
― Bill Flores
“By fostering competition, leveling the playing field, and increasing transparency, we can bring America’s health care sector into the 21st century.”
― Bill Flores
“With Obamacare’s fate in jeopardy, Democrats have no solutions to solve the mess they forced upon Americans.”
― Bill Flores
“The lack of portability and competition has long been a problem in America’s insurance market, yet Obamacare took no significant steps to open up the market between state lines.”
― Bill Flores
“The Obama administration’s proposed nuclear deal with Iran endangers the security of our nation and our allies.”
― Bill Flores
“For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.”
― Bill Flores
“Iran continues to explicitly threaten to destroy the state of Israel, America’s most important ally in the region. Its leaders continue to shout, ‘Death to America.’ If Iran wants to be a part of the world community, it should renounce such statements.”
― Bill Flores
“Any agreement with Iran should have strong verification and enforcement safeguards to prevent future cheating.”
― Bill Flores
“From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.”
― Bill Flores
“Going forward, we must continue the fight to change the direction of our country.”
― Bill Flores
“I think what we need to do is to have an immigration system where legal immigration is easier.”
― Bill Flores
“What I’d like to do is continue a private sector, free market Main Street types of policies. And those include less regulation. They include a fairer, flatter tax system.”
― Bill Flores
“I will term-limit myself probably before I would have enough seniority to get a committee chairmanship.”
― Bill Flores
“The Republican Study Committee was started and has grown to be sure that we create and promote, advance and execute conservative policies for the betterment of hard-working American families.”
― Bill Flores
“As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I’ve learned about Congress over the past four years that I’ve been in is there’s no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.”
― Bill Flores
“I don’t endorse people that bash judges based on his ethnic heritage.”
― Bill Flores
“Mr. Trump needs to show how he will address the critical issues on the minds of Americans: national security and economic opportunity for hardworking American families. Americans need to see more vision and less trash talk.”
― Bill Flores
“I was incredibly angry to see Mr. Trump question a judge’s motives because of his ethnicity.”
― Bill Flores
“Like tens of millions of Americans, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader.”
― Bill Flores
“I want to see the next Reagan. I want somebody who brings out the good in Americans and challenges us to aspire to that North Star, someone who wants to empower our families and individuals and communities and let them be free to achieve their dreams. That’s what’s going to make this country again.”
― Bill Flores
“House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately – ‘Raise our gaze.’ He’s exactly right, too. That’s what I’d like to see in a presidential candidate. I don’t like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That’s not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.”
― Bill Flores
“We’ve got to have comprehensive tax reform.”
― Bill Flores
“We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.”
― Bill Flores
“I’m not philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age… I accept the fact that I may have to raise my retirement age for that.”
― Bill Flores
“Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.”
― Bill Flores
“I am philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age. I misspoke and said I was not philosophically opposed.”
― Bill Flores
“I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 because there are just too many Americans that work hard all their lives and just simply physically couldn’t work until they are 70.”
― Bill Flores
“Washington is out of control, and it’s time for Texans to stand up and stop them.”
― Bill Flores
“If you look at history we’ve had since I’ve been in office, in an environment where we haven’t had earmarks, we’ve still been able to get tens of millions of dollars for McLennan County.”
― Bill Flores
“I would never criticize a federal judge, particularly if I had a court case in front of him, but you would certainly never, ever criticize them based on their ethnic background.”
― Bill Flores
“What I’d like to see Donald Trump do is start talking about his vision for leading the country and the policies that he would propose that would help hardworking American families who have struggled through the last few years and then also to differentiate himself from Hillary Clinton.”
― Bill Flores
“Chet Edwards votes for every bailout and against ending any bailout!”
― Bill Flores
“I’ve never said anything about privatizing Social Security.”
― Bill Flores
“If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States… can’t fix our Social Security system.”
― Bill Flores
“Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disregard of the sanctity of human life. In the meantime, I am relieved that the Bryan abortion facility has gone out of business.”
― Bill Flores
“Let me tell you what changed my mind: it was when Donald Trump picked Mike Pence to be his running mate. I was convinced that Donald Trump knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew that was rounded out the ticket in many ways.”
― Bill Flores
“I cannot avoid forgiving everybody that threw a brick at me during my various campaigns, so I think it’s important for all of us to bury that and say, ‘OK, we need to look forward’ – we’ve got to move forward from ‘never Trump’ to ‘never Hillary.’”
― Bill Flores
“I campaigned on being a collaborative leader.”
― Bill Flores
“By trying to advance the perfect conservative solution, nobody wins.”
― Bill Flores
“I think the comments about me being a shill for leadership are beyond the pale.”
― Bill Flores
“My gut tells me that the Supreme Court will rule the subsidies to be illegal, and therefore, Obamacare will fail.”
― Bill Flores
“I haven’t done things publicly to hurt conservatives.”
― Bill Flores
“I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.”
― Bill Flores
“If they’re committed to the mission statement of the RSC, they’re going to be happy with me as their chair. If they’re committed to another vision, then they may not be happy with me.”
― Bill Flores
“The good thing about Cruz is we know who he is today, and we’ll know exactly who he’ll be in the White House.”
― Bill Flores
“We don’t know who Donald Trump is.”
― Bill Flores
“We do have our challenges. Some things don’t always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what’s not working right.”
― Bill Flores
“We’re facing an enemy today in the Islamic State that knows no national boundaries. It doesn’t have a moral code of conduct.”
― Bill Flores
“Obama is not Bill Clinton. I don’t think he’s willing to let conservatives have any victories at all.”
― Bill Flores
“All of those loan programs that the federal government administers have flaws.”
― Bill Flores
“Our family is fortunate to have a well-documented history in a book titled ‘The Flores Family – 1725 to 1963’ by James F. Padgett.”
― Bill Flores
“I will never support amnesty legislation because it will not work.”
― Bill Flores
“We still have a First Amendment that protects your business and free speech.”
― Bill Flores
“I think we can create an environment where America can kind of get back on its economic feet.”
― Bill Flores
“I think it’s long overdue, and I believed that Doris Miller should have been honored a long time ago.”
― Bill Flores
“It is my plan to lead the RSC as a member-driven organization which puts forth positions developed through member participation and dialogue consistent with the RSC’s mission and the U.S. Constitution.”
― Bill Flores
“It is important that we take full advantage of the RSC’s size, character and the passion of its members to advance our conservative agenda in order to restore America to the ‘shining city on a hill’ that Ronald Reagan envisioned.”
― Bill Flores
“You won’t find any volatile quotes out in the press where I’ve run the team down publicly.”
― Bill Flores
“If our goal is to provide health care to our veterans, why does it need to be in the bricks and mortar of bureaucracy of the VA? Why can’t you give them an insurance card and let them go to a health care provider of their choice?”
― Bill Flores
“When you look at all of the conservative groups in town and across the country, we all agree on the same things. Where we sometimes get into a disagreement is over the tactics to get to the endpoint.”
― Bill Flores
“My goal is to be the tough negotiator but… not to air differences through press releases.”
― Bill Flores
“It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.”
― Bill Flores
“The ability of Texas Republicans to be effective in Congress is based on having at least 218 Republicans in the House.”
― Bill Flores
“If you read the Senate rules, there are provisions where the Senate parliamentarian can be overridden.”
― Bill Flores
“Concealed handgun licenses contain all of the identifying information required by the TSA. It is time they recognize these licenses as acceptable forms of identification.”
― Bill Flores
“The Nondiscriminatory Transportation Screening Act provides a commonsense approach for the TSA to update its policies on permissible verifying documents.”
― Bill Flores
“The requirements to obtain a concealed license are similar and often times stricter than that of obtaining a standard ID card.”
― Bill Flores
“I apologize to those of you I offended for coming out against the Ex-Im Bank. I’m not changing my mind on it, but I just wanted to let you know I apologize for that.”
― Bill Flores
“Rule of law has prevailed over Obama’s unconstitutional executive overreach.”
― Bill Flores
“I don’t have all the answers, so my goal is to make sure that the 180-some odd members of the RSC each have a seat at the table where we can talk about their vision.”
― Bill Flores
“We’ve made it crystal clear to the American people what we’re against. We need to talk about a couple of other things – what are we for?”
― Bill Flores
“I think we, the Republicans, have been mistyped as unfriendly to minorities and not receptive to minority views.”
― Bill Flores
“We feel that the Republican platform presents the best opportunity for the success of minority families. All minority groups seek the same opportunities in the United States that the settlers from Europe did when they came over.”
― Bill Flores
“The mission statement of the RSC is to foster a constitutionally bound limited government, it’s to have a strong national defense, it’s to protect private property rights and it’s to support American values. That’s what the mission statement is. There’s nothing in the mission statement about trying to hold leadership accountable.”
― Bill Flores
“I don’t need to air any differences of opinion in public.”
― Bill Flores
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