Patrick McHenry
Patrick McHenry
Patrick Timothy McHenryis the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 10th congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for a single term. The district is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and includes Hickory, Lincolnton, Shelby, and part of Gastonia...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 October 1975
CountryUnited States of America
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It was to set a tone, ... Just because the average age on our team is 10 years older, just because they're 100 pounds bigger and a foot taller, we would not be the demure members of Congress. We would actually be aggressive.
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We have to make the system solvent going forward. We have to make it a pay as you go system. We can't afford the rapid rising costs.
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I thought it would take years for a new member to become a player, ... It's better than I expected.
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We need to act sooner rather than later.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed, ... They thought I had no chance of winning.
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We got a number of good things done this year. It's rewarding to turn an idea into law.
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We've had a large undermining of our traditional values in this country. And I think that was a repercussion of the hippies in the '60s and their 'anything goes' attitude. Our generation has a realistic approach. We're not sort of pie-in-the-sky people.
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It's better to have this time now than 14 months from now, (but) we have to start talking to the base, or they will stay home.
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It's what a partisan hack would do, and that's what we have in Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. And this is what you're putting forward.
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This place is a much more sophisticated junior high school. There are the nice guys that everybody likes, the jocks, the geeks, the bullies ? they're all here. It's a representative democracy.
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Often a blank slate gets to the court and then leans to the left,
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I got a lot of pressure over a period of about two weeks, and I held my ground, ... I was committed to a cause.