Quotes from Matt Gaetz

I don't even think the biggest divide is between Republicans and Democrats. I think it's between institutionalists and reformers.

History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who deny the science of climate change. Similarly, those Democrats who would use climate change as a basis to regulate out of existence the American experience will face the harsh reality that their ideas will fail.

I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.

Typically, members of Congress don't just hear a story about a program and indicate whether they support it or not.

I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.

I love going on Chris Hayes' show. It probably is my favorite because of the intensity of the intellectual combat.

I don't think anybody, regardless of tragic circumstances, can expect to come to a congressional hearing and take it over with a series of interruptions.

I strongly support the rights of transgender individuals. I will not denigrate or deny their struggles.

If Democrats insist on looking for skeletons in the closet, they should take a long look at themselves. They've hidden more than their fair share.

You don't just get to show up in Washington and, because a terrible thing has happened to you, that you get to jump up and scream and yell.

If we become better with carbon capture technology, I think we can start a global trend toward carbon awareness.

Democrats want to peer into every second of President Trump's life, hoping to find a smoking gun.

Upon further reflection, I think that the things Alex Jones has said and done are so hurtful to so many people that a member of Congress should not grace that platform and legitimize it, and I would not go back.

The new conservative movement has to take on Trump's sense of boldness.

I don't trust CNN anchors.

Climate change isn't something people get to choose to believe or not: it's happening.

President Trump's coalition clearly involves creating massive turnout in areas where he's popular.

Bureaucrats lodged deep in agencies slow the impact of Trump's demands. Low-level staffers leak private meetings. The Department of Justice has gone rogue. The Swamp, it turns out, fights back.

Democrats justify anything they do against Trump as being righteous, even if it's morally wrong or even if it's illegal, because they're so driven to stop Trump.

In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you've got to have the ability to reinvent yourself in this game many times.

We need the speaker to be an institutionalist for the Congress, not to be a defender of the deep state.

I spoke at, I think, four of the Trump rallies that were in Florida, and these were not highly coordinated events. I would often learn of the program of one of these events just a day or so before the event itself. That seems to evidence the point that these were not people off colluding with Russia.

Choosing to disrespect our flag is an over-generalized indictment of the greatest nation on Earth.

While I unconditionally support the First Amendment, inciting violence against others due to their political affiliation is not constitutionally protected speech.