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" We had eight years of Barack Obama depleting our military, ignoring a lot of the threats around the world. "
Steve Scalise
Military
Years
World
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" The states should have much more responsibility for infrastructure building. "
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More
Building
Responsibility
" 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?' "
Steve Scalise
You
Home
Friends
" We want to say nobody should lose their health care. "
Steve Scalise
Health
Want
Say
" Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending. "
Steve Scalise
Economy
Budget
Growth
" We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border. "
Steve Scalise
People
Here
Coming
" The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore. "
Steve Scalise
Ignore
President
Will
" We're going to try to solve problems for everyday people. "
Steve Scalise
Problems
Everyday
People
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Will
People
Law
" Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor. "
Steve Scalise
Doctor
Decisions
Patient
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Result
Us
Problems
" You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions. "
Steve Scalise
Want
Actions
You
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Goal
Leadership
Vote
" I have families all the time in my district in southeast Louisiana sharing with me stories of double digit premium increases every single year. "
Steve Scalise
Single
Time
Year
" We can pass conservative policy that unites us. "
Steve Scalise
Conservative
Us
Unites
" You can't have one, two, three more picks on the Supreme Court go against our Second Amendment rights. "
Steve Scalise
You
Two
Three
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Limit
Speech
Go
" How about we let the states be innovative on Medicaid and do much better and smarter things? "
Steve Scalise
Medicaid
Things
Smarter
" Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written. "
Steve Scalise
Bible
Constitution
Important
" I think people all across the country want us to secure the border and make sure that terrorists are not coming into our country. "
Steve Scalise
Us
Want
Border
" There's no excuse for breaking the law. "
Steve Scalise
Breaking
No Excuse
Excuse
" When building a strong team, you need a strong leader. "
Steve Scalise
You
Team
Strong
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Support
Republican
Group
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Line
Doing
Health
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Service
Day
People
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
America
Teach
School
" I said I reject any form of bigotry, bigotry of all kinds. "
Steve Scalise
Reject
Any
Form
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Rich
Say
Rhetoric
" Ultimately, what we want to do is see the president follow the laws. "
Steve Scalise
Want
President
See
" You can't say it's broken, but let's keep some of Obamacare. You have to start over. "
Steve Scalise
Keep
Broken
You
" Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should it be some unelected bureaucrat in Washington? "
Steve Scalise
Decisions
Some
Doctor