Never give up on something you believe in.
Steve Scalise
In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.
I was on the board of Teach for America. And we transformed a failed public school system in the City of New Orleans, probably the most corrupted and failed system in the country.
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 was a very strong bipartisan coalition in Congress under President Bill Clinton that passed the Defense of Marriage Act. And you've had a majority of the states in this country that have strongly stated that marriage ought to be remain the union between one man and one woman.
Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.
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.
I fought really hard to win a seat in Congress, and everybody else did, too.
We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy.
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.
If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.
We can pass conservative policy that unites us.
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.
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.
We are not giving up on repealing and replacing Obamacare.
I've been very proud of a lot of the work I've done in New Orleans.
My goal is to get leadership to bring more conservative policies to the floor; it's not the other way around to get conservatives to vote for something they don't like. It's to get a more conservative product, and we've actually delivered on a number of occasions there.
I'm prepared to continue doing what we need to do to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
House Republicans are the most powerful force for limited government, strong national defense, and economic opportunity that exists in America today. But it is not enough to just talk about conservative values.
You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.
You can't say it's broken, but let's keep some of Obamacare. You have to start over.
Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.
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.
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.
The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore.
I'm not for amnesty. People must play by the rules. And border enforcement must come first.
While we always strive to reach 218 with Republican votes, sometimes that is not possible with divided government, and the story of a bill that passed with 150 Republican votes is much more positive and assertive than the story of a bill that passes with 79 Republican votes.
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.
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.
The only thing that gets reported are the tragedies. But it rarely gets reported when somebody actually uses their Second Amendment right with a gun to protect themselves against a criminal.
You look at Rand Paul's bill. He's got refundable tax credits. So many other bills that are out there have had this. Dr. Tom Price, who is secretary of HHS under President Trump, he had an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill that had tax credits.
We need to pass conservative policy. And we can only advance our values when we are united.
We're going to try to solve problems for everyday people.
You want to talk about something that truly changes the game in this country, Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.
Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy.
When you elected me to serve as your Whip, I committed to create an inclusive and open Whip operation - one that didn't just register your objections and move on, but instead actively sought you out and worked to build coalitions that enabled us to advance our agenda on some of the most controversial issues we have faced.
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.
People want the Keystone pipeline built all across the country.
No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.
Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.
If you don't agree, present what you think is a better way.
My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you.
I like the House. The House is where you can effect the most change. It's such a fast-moving dynamic body compared to the Senate.
I've always been a conservative first.
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.
At the end of the day, you are judged by your character. And look, I'm proud of my record of working to help people throughout my years of public service.
There's a general understanding amongst, I think, most people in this country that whether or not you have a preexisting condition, it's not your fault, and you shouldn't be discriminated against in healthcare policy.
Ultimately, what we want to do is see the president follow the laws.
Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should it be some unelected bureaucrat in Washington?
Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.
