Quotes from Kevin McCarthy

Many times, the Senate talks of things and never gets anything through.

Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.

Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.

You can't serve on every committee. But you can know what happened, what the debate was, who said what.

We have to defend America and be strong.

We're going to do tax reform to let people keep more of what they earn, grow an economy, and be able to save for your children's future and buy a new house.

Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward.

The whip's office is almost more educational - educating members on the bill itself, listening to members ahead of time.

The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.

As conservatives, we know our principles, and we also know the best ideas do not always come from Washington.

Budgets are blueprints and priorities.

The first priority of the Republican majority is the security of Americans.

It's the old Washington fiscal game of Jenga. You try to build as much debt as you can take, as much tax as you can take, until you topple the entire economy.

When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably.

We can't be afraid to call the enemy what it is: Radical Islamic terrorism.

I do believe in the free market.

I believe in a free market of ideas and not shying away from debate.

I don't need a strong EPA. I don't need to fund a lot of money there.

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

The best thing for the American public is that we do our job. That Washington changes. That the Senate and the House get together and fix their differences and find common ground.

Working at a restaurant is a tough gig.

When government grows, it breaks the family.

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.