Steve Scalise Quotes

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Steve Scalise

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 6, 1965

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.

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The states should have much more responsibility for infrastructure building.

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I'm not for amnesty. People must play by the rules. And border enforcement must come first.

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I'm prepared to continue doing what we need to do to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

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

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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.

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

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We can pass conservative policy that unites us.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The bottom line is, what are we doing to Obamacare? We eviscerate the law in our bill, and then we do things like expanding health savings accounts, which give families real flexibility. We reform Medicaid.

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