"Washington has to change," said the 16-year veteran of the House and Senate. Congress, he added, "is not held in high regard .... We don’t deserve to be."
- June 26th, 2010 Marshall/Burr Debate
"The fact is it is impossible for any candidate to get to the right of me from an ideological standpoint."
- February 23rd, 2010 News & Observer
"You have only one thing to fear: Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid!"
- December 15th, 2009 at an Art Pope funded DC protest to block health insurance reform, quoted by CBS
"It doesn't matter whether you're Republican or Democrat, it's tough to deal with day in and out... When people ask me if I enjoy what I'm doing, I try not to answer the question."
"On Friday night, I called my wife and I said, `Brooke, I am not coming home this weekend. I will call you on Monday. Tonight, I want you to go to the ATM machine, and I want you to draw out everything it will let you take," Burr said, according to the Hendersonville Times-News. "And I want you to tomorrow, and I want you to go Sunday.' I was convinced on Friday night that if you put a plastic card in an ATM machine the last thing you were going to get was cash."
February 2010: “If we intend to have some immediate impact on the economy through what we’re doing, why would we be extending unemployment insurance for a year?’” [Senator Richard Burr in CQ Today, 2/24/10]
March 2010: “The wrong thing to do is to automatically today extend unemployment for 12 months. I think that's a discouragement to individuals that are out there to actually go out and go through the interviews…Enough is enough.” [Senator Richard Burr quoted in Washington Post,7/20/10; CSPAN, 3/23/10]
May 2010: “Burr said he would prefer extending unemployment benefits just 30 or 60 days and said extending them the rest of the year might dissuade people from looking look for work, ‘Do we send the wrong signal?’ he said.” [Senator Richard Burr quoted in Gannett News Service, 5/10/10]
July 2010: ‘This is no longer an emergency,” Senator Burr defending his vote against extending unemployment benefits. [Senator Burr in Politico, 7/21/10]
