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" You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions. "
Steve Scalise
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" Ultimately, what we want to do is see the president follow the laws. "
Steve Scalise
Want
President
See
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Know
People
Important
" I fought really hard to win a seat in Congress, and everybody else did, too. "
Steve Scalise
Win
Seat
Hard
" We want to build a wall. "
Steve Scalise
Wall
Want
Build
" 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 want President Trump to have all the tools he needs to build the wall. "
Steve Scalise
President
Build
Wall
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
You
Today
Road
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Strong
Union
You
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
President
Price
Tax
" 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
" The states should have much more responsibility for infrastructure building. "
Steve Scalise
More
Building
Responsibility
" 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
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Stop
Day
End
" There's no excuse for breaking the law. "
Steve Scalise
Breaking
No Excuse
Excuse
" I've been very proud of a lot of the work I've done in New Orleans. "
Steve Scalise
New Orleans
Work
Done
" 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
" 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
" As both Republican Study Committee Chairman and Majority Whip, I've made it a top priority to bring openness and inclusiveness into the legislative process so we can bring our dynamic conference together as we advance our agenda. "
Steve Scalise
Republican
Together
Study
" I said I reject any form of bigotry, bigotry of all kinds. "
Steve Scalise
Reject
Any
Form
" A lot of individuals have had their personal information compromised, and then we've seen just about every corporation in this country hacked or attempted to be hacked by foreign countries. "
Steve Scalise
Country
Information
Personal
" The president does not have the option of choosing which laws he will follow and which he will ignore. "
Steve Scalise
Ignore
President
Will
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Think
People
Fault
" I've always been a conservative first. "
Steve Scalise
Been
Conservative
First
" No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster. "
Steve Scalise
Tastes
World
Good
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Game
Health
Talk
" Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net. "
Steve Scalise
Support
Country
Most
" 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
" Over the years, CBO has been all over the board on healthcare. The only consistent point is they've missed the mark on different pieces. That's the nature of a scorekeeper. "
Steve Scalise
Years
Healthcare
Missed
" 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
" 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. "
Steve Scalise
Voice
Conservative
Leadership