Kevin McCarthy

Quotes by Kevin McCarthy

• Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families.

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• There's a staircase on the first floor of the Capitol that I walk every day. It's made of marble, and as you walk those steps, you think of those who've walked before you. You think of the challenges that the country's faced.

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• I try to drive my office more as a start-up of ideas.

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• Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen.

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• We are committed to doing trade, tax reform, infrastructure. All we need is someone that wants to work with us.

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• We're going to do tax reform to let people keep more of what they earn, grow an economy, and be able to save for your children's future and buy a new house.

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• Too many people in Washington care about power institutions, not caring about changing the lives of everyday Americans.

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• How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.

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• Every American, whether Democrat or Republican, agrees that job creation and affordable energy will be crucial to our economic turnaround.

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• You cannot be the leader of the free world and sit on the sidelines and tweet and think you're going to get the job done.

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• There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

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• When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

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• Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.

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• I met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, visited our allies in the Arab Gulf, traveled to Tunisia and Iraq, met with President Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine, and visited our allies in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.

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• When I think of the future, I think of my 15 year old son Connor and my 12 year old daughter Meghan. I worry about their future because your kids are as important to you as mine are to me. And I am unwilling to leave our children with so much debt.

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• Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.

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• You have to reform the visa program. The chain migration system doesn't work. You need a guest workers program.

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• We pledge to you that we will create jobs. End economic uncertainty and make America more competitive. We will cut Washington wasteful spending and reduce the size of government. And we will reform Congress and restore your trust in government.

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