Quotes

“We can talk all day long about how we’ve all got to get along, and how bipartisanship is great, and all of that. But when it comes down to it, it’s all about power,”
– Cliff Bentz July 25, 2025

“You keep saying cuts … I think the better word would be “savings”…”

-Cliff Bentz February 26, 2025

“When I say they’ll do as I tell them, they’ll do as I tell them.”
– Donald Trump 3/4/16

“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself”
-Jesus 30 AD.

“They’re professional protesters. … We all know it…”
– Speaker Mike Johnson 3/4/25

 “So I just want to make it clear um lots of people don’t like solar. Many of us are disgusted with how it looks and what it does to um otherwise um agricultural setting.”

– Cliff Bentz Sept 17th 2025

“What happens when we get down to it… is that the people who decide they don’t want to go along for the ride in our caucus will get a call from the White House.”
Cliff Bentz 7/25/25

Bentz also hinted at the president tailoring and targeting withheld funds so they don’t impact his supporters.  “I’d probably be going to the president and saying, ‘Hey, my district voted for you … if you’re going to be doing this, you better tailor it so at least it’s targeted on those that you think don’t support you,’” he said. “But we do out here.”  Bentz said restricting access based on political affiliation is the way things work.

-Cliff Bentz East Oregonian  8-28-2025

“Politics in Portland are such that Portland can’t – and the chief of police – can’t do their job, and I point right at the City Council of Portland.”

– Cliff Bentz Oct. 11, 2025

“…derisive and accusatory comments, canned questions, and reading from scripts of screed written and distributed by the anti-Trump gang, ‘Indivisible’, a left-wing group…is to disrupt, intimidate, and threaten.”

– Cliff (baby pants) Bentz Sept 5, 2025

Bentz said he does not know if The Dalles’ reservoir expansion is needed specifically to fulfill Google’s water needs. “Did I ask them how they were going to use the water and who was going to get it? No,” Bentz told OPB.

– Cliff Bentz OPB Jan. 15, 2026