Top 60 Matt Gaetz Quotes

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There's not an American that would want to be investiga

There’s not an American that would want to be investigated by someone they passed over for their old job back within the last 24 hours.
Matt Gaetz
I don’t know why anyone would want businesses and families and individuals nationwide to suffer. But by voting against tax reform, Democrats showed that was exactly what they stand for: less money for families and more money into Washington, D.C.
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If Adam Schiff is able to review covert operations and intelligence, and if we have to be able to rely on his representations, our whole system is broken.
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You can’t go do the Green New Deal. It’s a set of aspirations that don’t really bring us to sensible action.
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We need the speaker to be an institutionalist for the Congress, not to be a defender of the deep state.
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Upon further reflection, I think that the things Alex Jones has said and done are so hurtful to so many people that a member of Congress should not grace that platform and legitimize it, and I would not go back.
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Agricultural products ranging from citrus and dairy to beef and chicken face stifling tariffs or nontariff barriers in many countries around the world.
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The Russians win when we allow our intelligence community to be politicized, when we allow political opposition research to function as a basis for a warrant to spy on American citizens.
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In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you’ve got to have the ability to reinvent yourself in this game many times.
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Ask anybody on Main Street whether it makes any sense to allow foreign countries to charge higher tariffs than we charge them, and the answer will surely be a resounding ‘heck no!’
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We should not be a party that is opposed to science.
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It’s a big deal when you have got to fire the deputy director of the FBI because he lies four times, twice under oath. It’s also a big deal when you have got to reassign people off the Mueller probe, when you have got cash at the Democratic National Committee that is convertible into a warrant to spy on American citizens.
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Democrats justify anything they do against Trump as being righteous, even if it’s morally wrong or even if it’s illegal, because they’re so driven to stop Trump.
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At best, a 100-day measurement of a new presidency is a meaningless abstraction. At worst, it’s an invite to cheap politicking at the expense of the common good.
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It is bizarre to see the NFL attacking an America that has treated it so well over the years. Taxpayers pay over 70 percent of the cost of stadiums. Our citizens pay more and more for tickets, and valuations of professional sports franchises have skyrocketed. Player compensation keeps growing.
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No one wants to be the next Pete Rose.
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The USRTA recognizes that the United States is the largest importer of goods even as it maintains, on average, the lowest combination of tariffs and nontariff barriers of any of its major trading partners.
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One of the great things about technological innovation is that we haven’t found out a way to make it partisan yet, and so we can actually bring Republicans and Democrats together to use innovative technologies to generate a cleaner environment, and we don’t need excessive regulations to do it.
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We cannot live in a country where losing an election functions as de facto immunity deal.
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I would suggest that a Green Real Deal is something to be far more excited about than the Green New Deal because the Green New Deal will never happen.
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When Federal law conflicts with state laws and the will of the American people, it’s time to change the laws, not circulate edicts.
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When Donald Trump calls you, it’s like you have a little Trump rally in your ear.
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No reasonable American believes that someone can investigate their own boss.
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I have litigated in my private life, and I will say there are many reasons why a judge could be recused from a case that have nothing to do with their prior decisions or rulings on facts which may be relevant.
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Russia engages in a malign influence campaign all over the world. I would expect that they would try to undermine democracy here just that they – as they have in other places.
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The question for America is pretty simple: either we want a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington telling us what we can’t do, or we empower American innovators to unlock things that we can do.
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The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president’s ears.
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Congress has broad powers to regulate and control commerce. Congress also cannot force a state to ‘un-decriminalize’ something; states’ rights are routinely upheld by the Court.
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I did one cable news hit during my first 10 months in Congress.
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I don’t even think the biggest divide is between Republicans and Democrats. I think it’s between institutionalists and reformers.
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We shouldn’t tell prosecutors to ‘pick and choose’ what laws to uphold.
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The biggest threat to the Trump movement is that Republ

The biggest threat to the Trump movement is that Republicans in office demoralize our base because the only way we win now is by driving turnout among our voters. And if our voters just think we’re weak, we don’t fight, we don’t do the things we say when we get elected? Then there is no future for us.
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To sustain the Trump Revolution, we must empower Trump’s champions to drive positive change across America. And we must defeat ‘Never Trump’ elements wherever we find them.
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I have to say, I have never watched ‘Infowars.’ I know that they say zany things that are patently untrue. But I also think that MSNBC says zany things that are patently untrue.
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Tax Day is right up there with ‘Root Canal Day’ in terms of days that no one wants to celebrate.
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I’m on the pro-science side of the Republican Party.
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Typically, members of Congress don’t just hear a story about a program and indicate whether they support it or not.
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We are a nation of laws, not department-wide memos.
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If President Trump were to say, ‘I’m am now the first female president,’ who would celebrate that?
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I don’t think anybody, regardless of tragic circumstances, can expect to come to a congressional hearing and take it over with a series of interruptions.
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A melting Arctic creates a more permissive environment for Russia and China to seize territory.
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Mass migrations of climate refugees erode borders and nations, creating a global playground for terrorists and traffickers.
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In some egregious cases, cities built new stadiums even while their citizens were still paying off old stadiums that had since closed. This is corporate welfare run amok, and a gross misuse of American citizens’ tax money – something the government must treat with respect.
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Climate change is real.
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The Green Real Deal rejects regulation as the driving force of reform and instead unlocks the unlimited potential of American innovation and ingenuity.
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I spoke at, I think, four of the Trump rallies that were in Florida, and these were not highly coordinated events. I would often learn of the program of one of these events just a day or so before the event itself. That seems to evidence the point that these were not people off colluding with Russia.
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The reality of climate change is a stupid thing to argue about.
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I’m a Christian, and I believe the Immaculate Conception was how Jesus was born.
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I believe that the Left is trying to create a crisis on the border.
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The new conservative movement has to take on Trump’s sense of boldness.
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People in the media grew up in the Northeast and can’t comprehend the notion that there are people who like to go out to the clay pits and shoot and, afterward, go eat fried chicken.
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I love going on Chris Hayes’ show. It probably is my favorite because of the intensity of the intellectual combat.
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I don’t trust CNN anchors.
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You don’t just get to show up in Washington and, because a terrible thing has happened to you, that you get to jump up and scream and yell.
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We’re called conspiracy theorists because we see this cabal right in front of us. We’re able to aggregate these data points and show what was really going on.
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Democrats want to peer into every second of President Trump’s life, hoping to find a smoking gun.
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If we got more efficient with electric grid capacity, we would substantially reduce our carbon footprint, and people would be likely to copy us.
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If Democrats insist on looking for skeletons in the closet, they should take a long look at themselves. They’ve hidden more than their fair share.
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Our generation, I think, has a demand for authenticity that exceeds any prior generation.
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I’m very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that’s why we’ve got to secure our cyberdefenses.
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