Top 60 Steve Scalise Quotes

As all of us here have known, and as people all throughout the nation are witnessing, Gabby Giffords is a fighter.

A lot of individuals have had their personal information compromised, and then we’ve seen just about every corporation in this country hacked or attempted to be hacked by foreign countries.

I said I reject any form of bigotry, bigotry of all kinds.

Many people who have insurance can’t even use it because they have $10,000 or higher deductibles. This is something families are facing all across the nation. They’ve asked for relief; this was front and center on President Trump’s agenda and our agenda in Congress, and we’re moving forward on it.

So let’s find a way to protect people differently than Obamacare, because Obamacare’s answer was, ‘Just make everybody pay more’.

In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.

When everybody goes into their separate corners, it’s just real easy to demonize the other side instead of saying, ‘Okay, how can we come together and figure out how to get done what’s important for the country?’

You can’t say it’s broken, but let’s keep some of Obamacare. You have to start over.

I understand from experience that unity is easy to call for, but it takes the right kind of leadership to achieve.

Ultimately, what we want to do is see the president follow the laws.

The idea of strengthening health savings accounts… that bolsters the marketplace.

The states should have much more responsibility for infrastructure building.

I am strongly opposed to any form of amnesty, including, especially, executive amnesty.

We’re going to try to solve problems for everyday people.

There was this mischaracterization that I ran for leadership to be the guy to get conservatives to vote for leadership. I said I would be a conservative voice at the leadership table.

Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should it be some unelected bureaucrat in Washington?

You gotta get into some confrontations sometimes to get the right result on the floor, but I think the bulk of our membership wants us to work out problems before a bill comes to the floor.

There are going to be times when we disagree with our leadership, but ultimately, we’ve got to work hard to pull our leadership to the right and to move a conservative agenda forward and unite as conservatives if we’re going to get things done.

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

I’ve been very proud of a lot of the work I’ve done in New Orleans.

I just know how lucky I am.

I had miracles. I had angels.

When you get into this line of work, you’re in public office, you expect you’re gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That’s part of the process.

Obviously, you cannot do full repeal of Obamacare without a 60-vote bill in the Senate, but you can surely gut the law and give people true healthcare freedom with 51 votes in the Senate.

Barack Obama, he just sits out. He sits back; he criticizes everybody. He’s got his professorial attitude, real condescending, as if he’s got all the answers.

Over the years, CBO has been all over the board on healthcare. The only consistent point is they’ve missed the mark on different pieces. That’s the nature of a scorekeeper.

I think it’s a shame that the day somebody hears about a shooting, the first thing they think about is, ‘How can I go promote my gun control agenda?’ as opposed to saying, ‘How do I go pray and help the families that are suffering?’

Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

People want the Keystone pipeline built all across the country.

Let’s lower costs for health care. Let’s put patients in charge of their solutions.

I think it’s encouraging that President Trump is talking about strengthening our national defense, something he ran on again.

Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn’t we be able to secure ours?

Any time you’re working on big things, you’re going to get criticized along the way.

Mike Pence, of course, is a governor with executive experience and doing well in a Midwestern state, but also served in Congress. I served with Mike.

It shouldn’t just be Russia we’re concerned about, because many countries that are not our friends have been hacking into American accounts across the board.

The thing that probably frustrated me and hurt me the most was when there were inaccurate stories written about me or stories that were written that were trying to imply or infer things that weren’t true.

Dr. King challenged our country to fulfill the promises of liberty, equality, and justice prescribed in the founding of our great nation. Leading by example, he stressed the teachings of tolerance, service, and love, regardless of race, color, or creed.

I don’t want doctors and patients to be having to – having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.

Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy.

A national carbon tax would devastate an already struggling American economy, force the cost of gas at the pump to jump even higher, and kill millions more jobs here at home.

Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor.

You can’t have one, two, three more picks on the Supreme Court go against our Second Amendment rights.

The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore.

The problem is not that there are too many guns. It’s that there are people that will go out and break the law, whether it’s a gun or some other weapon or a bomb.

I don’t have any records from back in 2002, but when people called and asked me to speak to groups, I went and spoke to groups.

You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.

Barack Obama destroyed the middle class. Whatever you want to say about his rhetoric, the rich got richer, but the poor got poorer, and the middle class got wiped out. That’s really what Trump appealed to and inspired in the forgotten man.

We want President Trump to have all the tools he needs to build the wall.

I’m very proud of the Italian heritage of my great-grandparents, who came here from Italy, and how they helped be a part of the American Dream, and that’s something we want to continue to make available to everybody who wants to come here.

If you’re holding a grudge against somebody over the battle you just went through, you might be working with them on the next bill.

There are a lot of people in the Rust Belt who felt like, ‘Nobody’s concerned about me, and my shot at the American dream is going away.’ We need to restore that.

For all the banging from the Left that, you know, ‘They don’t care about people with pre-existing conditions’ – There was never a day where our conference was willing to leave people out in the cold.

We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.

We want to say nobody should lose their health care.

People want smart energy policy.

If you had a job, and every day you’re going back home and telling all your friends how horrible your job is and how horrible your employer is, after a while, they’re going to start believing you. And then at some point, they’re going to start questioning you and say, ‘Why, if it’s so bad, are you doing it?’

Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.

I have families all the time in my district in southeast Louisiana sharing with me stories of double digit premium increases every single year.

Never give up on something you believe in.

Our Founding Fathers believed strongly in gun rights for citizens.