Steve Scalise Quotes

Bigger Than His Party.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

While loyalists and defectors overall said John Smith did a better job of standing up for Labour's values, they put Blair ahead on representing the whole country, appealing beyond traditional Labour voters and offering strong, competent leadership; switchers to the Tories gave him a clear lead in all categories.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

The young man who is moved in any way to contemplate an entry into public life … learns first of all to understand that there are two great political organizations, with one of which he must associate himself, learning and echoing its catch-words, accepting its leadership, and steeping himself in the belief that in it are wisdom and truth while the other party is void of both

Believing as I do in political parties, I had rather that the party ... should, in its conferences, make a declaration than to assume a leadership or take an individual position on the question.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

The future belongs to Conservatives. They are younger, they are more energetic, they dominate the party caucuses, they dominate the nominating process. They are committed to ideas, not simply personal aggrandizement or title.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

We offer more than a program; we offer a man [Richard M. Nixon] to carry it out.

The Congressional leadership has to reflect the current feelings of their party caucus.

I was a Republican until they lost their minds.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. This is because, in party politics as in other matters, it is the party membership that dictates the language, and the membership relinquishes the ideas it has been given more readily than the words it has learned..

The two old parties … fight only for office. Observe how utterly both parties in this respect lack program and new leadership.

Vision is not political rhetoric

I am so out of sympathy with what seems to be the prevailing currents of American opinion that I keep my judgment suspended as regards the political wisdom of certain [Republican] party moves

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.

There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.

Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.