Quotes from Steve Scalise

Unelected bureaucrats in Washington should not have anything to do with the healthcare decisions made between a patient and their doctor.

Paying for disasters and being fiscally responsible are not mutually exclusive.

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.

Obviously, you cannot do full repeal of Obamacare without a 60-vote bill in the Senate, but you can surely gut the law and give people true healthcare freedom with 51 votes in the Senate.

If you don't agree, present what you think is a better way.

I'm not for amnesty. People must play by the rules. And border enforcement must come first.

Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should it be some unelected bureaucrat in Washington?

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.

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.

In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.

If you're making enemies along the way, you're going to limit the ability for yourself to be successful in advancing your causes.

We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy.

I like the House. The House is where you can effect the most change. It's such a fast-moving dynamic body compared to the Senate.

For all the banging from the Left that, you know, 'They don't care about people with pre-existing conditions' - There was never a day where our conference was willing to leave people out in the cold.

I've always been a conservative first.

I'm prepared to continue doing what we need to do to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

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.

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.

Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.

Barack Obama, he just sits out. He sits back; he criticizes everybody. He's got his professorial attitude, real condescending, as if he's got all the answers.

Any time you're working on big things, you're going to get criticized along the way.

I understand from experience that unity is easy to call for, but it takes the right kind of leadership to achieve.

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.

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.