Matt Gaetz

Politician

1982-05-07

Books by Matt Gaetz

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Quotes by Matt Gaetz

Democrats want to peer into every second of President Trump's life, hoping to find a smoking gun.
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In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you've got to have the ability to reinvent yourself in this game many times.
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If you think I have the power to determine when people leave their spouses, you attribute far too much credit to me.
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Kneeling for the anthem does nothing to advance solutions to racial injustice, police brutality, or any other social plight. It is a slap in the face to patriotism itself. It is a statement that America as a country is no longer worth standing for.
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While the Washington swamp, which loves shipping American jobs offshore to make a buck or Euro, is already rising up against the proposed legislation, the USRTA is just plain common sense.
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President Trump is draining the D.C. swamp by fighting against corporate welfare.
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Why should 'big sports' get tax breaks that businesses and families across America don't get?
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Tax reform has been a congressional priority for decades. It should be a bipartisan issue. I don't know why anyone in Congress would want their constituents to pay more.
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The USRTA recognizes that the United States is the largest importer of goods even as it maintains, on average, the lowest combination of tariffs and nontariff barriers of any of its major trading partners.
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I strongly support the rights of transgender individuals. I will not denigrate or deny their struggles. But I am concerned about the potential bad actors who would exploit the provisions for their own gain.
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President Trump's coalition clearly involves creating massive turnout in areas where he's popular.
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The biggest threat to the Trump movement is that Republicans in office demoralize our base because the only way we win now is by driving turnout among our voters. And if our voters just think we're weak, we don't fight, we don't do the things we say when we get elected? Then there is no future for us.
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While I unconditionally support the First Amendment, inciting violence against others due to their political affiliation is not constitutionally protected speech.
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The question for America is pretty simple: either we want a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington telling us what we can't do, or we empower American innovators to unlock things that we can do.
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I have to say, I have never watched 'Infowars.' I know that they say zany things that are patently untrue. But I also think that MSNBC says zany things that are patently untrue.
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We shouldn't tell prosecutors to 'pick and choose' what laws to uphold.
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I will be damned if the people in South Florida are going to dilute the legal votes of my constituents, who have a right to an honest, fair, representative republic.
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You don't just get to show up in Washington and, because a terrible thing has happened to you, that you get to jump up and scream and yell.
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