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" If you don't agree, present what you think is a better way. "
Steve Scalise
Agree
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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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" 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 understand from experience that unity is easy to call for, but it takes the right kind of leadership to achieve. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I fought really hard to win a seat in Congress, and everybody else did, too. "
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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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" You can't say it's broken, but let's keep some of Obamacare. You have to start over. "
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" Ultimately, what we want to do is see the president follow the laws. "
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" 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. "
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Congress
Well
" I said I reject any form of bigotry, bigotry of all kinds. "
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Reject
Any
Form
" 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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Voice
Conservative
Leadership
" I knew I was shot. Didn't know how bad it was. You know, in a weird way, your body kind of goes numb. You know, as bad as the wounds were - and obviously, I know now how severe it was - at the time, I guess my body had been shutting down a lot of the real pain. "
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Time
Weird
Pain
" Under President Obama, the IRS formed a committee to aggressively go after churches and other religious organizations using the Johnson Amendment of 1954 to limit their free speech. "
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Limit
Speech
Go
" 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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Successful
You
Way
" I am strongly opposed to any form of amnesty, including, especially, executive amnesty. "
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Am
Including
I Am
" 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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Help
End
Work
" 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. "
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Right
Against
Gun
" 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. "
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Service
Day
People
" 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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" Especially in the whip operation, you're in constant contact with the members and their chiefs of staff, so having a chief who's approachable and reaches out to other chiefs so people know what's going - know what they're looking for in the policy that comes to the House floor - is incredibly important. "
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Important
" 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. "
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Think
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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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Need
Prepared
Doing
" 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. "
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Today
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" When building a strong team, you need a strong leader. "
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Team
Strong
" We're not going to let some unelected bureaucrats in Washington stop us from moving forward with our agenda, but at the end of the day, CBO is not the Holy Grail. "
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Stop
Day
End
" 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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Line
Doing
Health