A biography for Steve Scalisehasn’t been written yet.
“We're strongest when we're united, and we're united when everyone has an opportunity to contribute their talents and ideas.”
“Under President Obama, the IRS formed a committee to aggressively go after churches and other religious organizations using the Johnson Amendment of 1954 to limit their free speech.”
“Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.”
“In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.”
“Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling spending.”
“When building a strong team, you need a strong leader.”
“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.”
“There are a lot of people in the Rust Belt who felt like, 'Nobody's concerned about me, and my shot at the American dream is going away.' We need to restore that.”
“I've always been a conservative first.”
“We had eight years of Barack Obama depleting our military, ignoring a lot of the threats around the world.”
“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.”
“Any time you're working on big things, you're going to get criticized along the way.”
“I had miracles. I had angels.”
“We are not giving up on repealing and replacing Obamacare.”
“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.”
“We ought to prioritize national disasters... in a fiscally responsible way.”
“We want to say nobody should lose their health care.”
“Never give up on something you believe in.”
“If you don't agree, present what you think is a better way.”
“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.”