James Inhofe Quotes

James Mountain Inhofe is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Oklahoma, a seat he was first elected to in 1994. A member of the Republican Party, he chaired the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works from 2003 to 2007 and again from 2015 until 2017. Inhofe previously served seven years as the U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district and six as Mayor of Tulsa .

Inhofe is best-known for his denial of global warming. He supports a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage and has proposed the Inhofe Amendment to make English the national language of the United States.

Inhofe served as acting chairman of the Armed Services Committee while John McCain fought cancer in 2018. After McCain's death, he became chairman.

✵ 17. November 1934
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Famous James Inhofe Quotes

“We're both doing the Lord's work, Noel.”

[Sen. Inhofe Talks to NewsBusters About Global Warming, Gingrich and Politico's Energy Policy Maker of the Year, Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/11/30/sen-inhofe-talks-newsbusters-about-global-warming-gingrich-and-politi]

“Those individuals from the far left, and I'm talking about the Hollywood elitists and the United Nations and those individuals want us to believe it's because we are contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, that's causing global warming. It's all about money. I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?”

Fox & Friends, quoted in [Fox Takes Fair And Balanced Look At Weather "War"...With One Side, Rachel Sklar, The Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2007/01/30/fox-takes-fair-and-balanc_e_40001.html]

“We don't stop and realize that we are dealing with people—the far-left doesn't think we need a military to start with, they really don't. You've heard me say this before, they really believe if all countries would just stand in a circle and unilaterally disarm and hold hands then all threats would go away, they believe that. They would never say that but they do believe that.”

2012-12-04
The Frank Gaffney Show
Radio
http://www.securefreedomradio.org/2012/12/04/teetering-on-a-failed-state/, quoted in * 2012-12-05
Inhofe Claims Obama and Liberals Hope to Disband the Military
Brian
Tashman
Right Wing Watch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/inhofe-obama-liberals-hope-disband-military

James Inhofe Quotes about people

“With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.”

" The Science of Climate Change http://www.epw.senate.gov/speechitem.cfm?party=rep&id=230594", Senate floor speech (), quoted in [The Republican War on Science, Chris Mooney, w:Chris Mooney (journalist), Basic Books, 9780465046751, 3394109M, 84]

James Inhofe Quotes

“I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment.”

regarding Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, quoted in [2004-05-12, GOP senator labels abused prisoners 'terrorists', CNN, http://articles.cnn.com/2004-05-11/politics/inhofe.abuse_1_naked-prisoners-iraqi-prisoners-james-inhofe]

“Do you realize I was actually on your side of this issue when I was chairing that committee and I first heard about this? I thought it must be true until I found out what it would cost.”

2012-03-15
The Rachel Maddow Show
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46762101/
on hearing about climate change as chair of the Senate Environment Committee

“I can only say that what this country does not need is another Gestapo bureaucracy like the EPA and OSHA. And we do not want that to happen to the FDA.”

"Government Overregulation Hurting American Citizens", 138 Congressional Record H907 ()
regarding the Food and Drug Administration, disparaging the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration

“I believe very strongly that we ought to support Israel; that it has a right to the land. This is the most important reason: Because God said so.”

Source: " Peace in the Middle East http://inhofe.senate.gov/pressreleases/peace.htm", Senate Floor speech regarding the Israeli–Palestinian conflict ()

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