Steve Scalise Quotes

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Steve Scalise

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 6, 1965

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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At the end of the day, I'm really proud of the work I did to help kids get an equal opportunity, and a lot of them have.

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We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy.

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

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There are lot of issues we passed out of the House that have gotten not only a lot of Republican support - Tea Party and every group within the Republican conference - but even Democrats.

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If you're making enemies along the way, you're going to limit the ability for yourself to be successful in advancing your causes.

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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?'

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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?'

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I fought really hard to win a seat in Congress, and everybody else did, too.

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

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I had miracles. I had angels.

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I just know how lucky I am.

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