Dan Webster
Dan Webster
Daniel Alan Websteris an American politician who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2011. Webster, a Republican from Florida, initially represented Florida's 8th congressional district; since 2013, his district has been numbered the 10th district, located in the central part of the state. Previously, Webster served 28 years in the Florida state legislature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 April 1949
CountryUnited States of America
I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
You take away the money from Israel? No. That's something we can't do.
Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.
As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.
Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?
The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.
The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.
I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.
I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.
I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.