Top 35 Phil Gingrey Quotes

I think Tom Frieden, the CDC director, is a good man, is a good doctor and, I think, basically has done a good job.

I truly believe that we have the best health care system in the world. It’s not perfect, but this business of turning it over to the federal government to try to make it perfect is quite honestly asinine.

I am angry – mad – at the Chief Justice, John Roberts.

I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.

Most of the folks to whom I listen are concerned for their future. Too many of them know someone who’s out of work, has lost their own job, or fear they might. And, they increasingly believe that the opportunity for a better life for their children is slipping away.

Everyone depending on foreign fuels are all too inclined, it seems, to let jobs leave this country.

In 2012, a hamburger cost Amtrak $16.15, with riders paying $9.50. This means that we, the taxpayers, are forced to pick up the tab for the remaining $6.65 through subsidies provided to Amtrak.

A lot of people get elected to Congress, and sometimes a part of their pledge is a term-limit pledge. There’s no accountability.

I used to go to Savannah all the time as a teenager, and we’ve got some friends down in Valdosta, so I feel like I’ve got a good base of support.

Americans are proud of this country. They want to see things get better, and they want to be part of that turnaround. That’s what America Speaking Out is all about.

I have been blessed, working both at the local level on a community school board, the state assembly, four years in the state senate, and now almost 12 years in the House of Representatives.

I call this ‘boss Obamacare.’ The only health care that citizens of this country can access are those approved by the boss.

I’m not itching for a fight. But I’m just saying when I see the other guy putting on his boxing gloves and, you know, you’ve got dancing around in the ring, I kind of suspect that maybe a fight’s coming.

It’s very easy for the candidates to talk about how conservative they are, how conservative they will be.

I’ll help repeal Obamacare in my first term, or go home, because you deserve a senator who gets the job done or gets out of the way. Repeal or go home. That’s my pledge to you.

I pledge to give all there is of myself.

I am a career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.

As a practicing physician for over 30 years, I can assure the president that the majority of physicians in this country are for health-care reform – just not the government-run reform he prefers.

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

We will literally send a van and a photographer to the home of anybody that can say they can’t get a picture made and a photo ID and we will do it… at the state’s cost and the taxpayer cost and not at the individual cost.

We can’t take our ball and go home when the consequences mean a weaker America.

I don’t want to continue to fund Obamacare.

Spending on largely ineffective programs – although well intentioned – is a detriment to fostering real job growth.

Leader Reid is doing a horrendous job.

I have actively opposed every bailout, every rebate check, every so called ‘stimulus.’

We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, ‘Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don’t be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.’

I truly believe that the job creators, those people making $200,000 a year, are the small business men and women that create the jobs and ultimately will help the middle class and the poor.

I have always been someone who wants to get it right. That started when I ran for school board. It’s an avocation that’s become a full-time job.

As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose.

People need to look beyond just the immediate victory… There are no permanent victories.

The vaunted Democratic stimulus bill has failed to stimulate anything other than a few federal bureaucrats.

Yes, we can pay the interest on the debt. We can renew the $500 billion worth of bonds that are coming due. We can mail out our Social Security checks. We can make sure those Medicare claims are honored. We can pay our military. We can protect our veterans. But when you get beyond that, the soup gets a little thin.

What it is basically, if you go to a gun show, and there’s somebody out there in the parking lot, and they’re getting out of their car, and they’ve got an A-15 on their shoulder, or… John Q. Public wants to sell a handgun or whatever, then there’s no background check.

I think the time has come when the American people understand that federal employees need to work an 8-hour day just like everybody else.

The takeover of the U.S. House by Republicans could prompt a revival of the fight for additional funding for the Marietta-built F-22 stealth fighter. This isn’t just for the sake of home-cooking, but also for the sake of the country.