Matt Gaetz Quotes

I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues.

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

I've enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer's program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O'Reilly. I will do it any time.

I don't, frankly, want to be on television.

I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.

If I only had 12 years left to live, I'd want to live it as a member of Congress because that was the 12 longest years of my life.

When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.

People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school.

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.

I'm probably one of the only people who has voted for the speaker of the House but didn't serve in Congress.

Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

Television changed politics forever. If you’re not any good at it, forget it.

When I was first asked to be on 'Washington Week', I never prepared more for an appearance.

I'm going to be all over your TV for the foreseeable future.

Coming into Congress, I didn't really have much of a worldly experience.

Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.

I'm not good at entertainment. I don't give myself to all the interviews, game shows, or talk shows.

I didn't get into politics to play a character on TV.

It is hard for me to understand I am on television and people around the world watch me every week in a country I have never even been to.

If ever there were a candidate destined to shine on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' Sarah Palin would be that woman.

I've never wanted to be on television for the sake of it, I suppose because I'm not one of life's natural presenters; I'm not an actor.