American - Politician | October 6, 1965 -
I said I reject any form of bigotry, bigotry of all kinds.
Steve Scalise
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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.
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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.
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You gotta get into some confrontations sometimes to get the right result on the floor, but I think the bulk of our membership wants us to work out problems before a bill comes to the floor.
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When you get into this line of work, you're in public office, you expect you're gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That's part of the process.
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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.
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At the end of the day, I'm really proud of the work I did to help kids get an equal opportunity, and a lot of them have.
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We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy.
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Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.
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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.
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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.
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If you're making enemies along the way, you're going to limit the ability for yourself to be successful in advancing your causes.
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