Quotes from Steve Scalise

Dr. King challenged our country to fulfill the promises of liberty, equality, and justice prescribed in the founding of our great nation. Leading by example, he stressed the teachings of tolerance, service, and love, regardless of race, color, or creed.

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.

I said I reject any form of bigotry, bigotry of all kinds.

If you're holding a grudge against somebody over the battle you just went through, you might be working with them on the next bill.

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.

We want President Trump to have all the tools he needs to build the wall.

Many people who have insurance can't even use it because they have $10,000 or higher deductibles. This is something families are facing all across the nation. They've asked for relief; this was front and center on President Trump's agenda and our agenda in Congress, and we're moving forward on it.

Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy.

House Republicans are the most powerful force for limited government, strong national defense, and economic opportunity that exists in America today. But it is not enough to just talk about conservative values.

The thing that probably frustrated me and hurt me the most was when there were inaccurate stories written about me or stories that were written that were trying to imply or infer things that weren't true.

The states should have much more responsibility for infrastructure building.

Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.

If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.

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.

How about we let the states be innovative on Medicaid and do much better and smarter things?

It shouldn't just be Russia we're concerned about, because many countries that are not our friends have been hacking into American accounts across the board.

I knew I was shot. Didn't know how bad it was. You know, in a weird way, your body kind of goes numb. You know, as bad as the wounds were - and obviously, I know now how severe it was - at the time, I guess my body had been shutting down a lot of the real pain.

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.

Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.

Mike Pence, of course, is a governor with executive experience and doing well in a Midwestern state, but also served in Congress. I served with Mike.

I have families all the time in my district in southeast Louisiana sharing with me stories of double digit premium increases every single year.

I had miracles. I had angels.

You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.

I don't have any records from back in 2002, but when people called and asked me to speak to groups, I went and spoke to groups.