Steve Scalise Quotes

I married a woman from New Orleans, so I had family here. Post-Katrina, I had a number of friends call me up and say they wanted to do something to help the community - not just Habitat for Humanity or Red Cross, we've done that, but what can we do for the community.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

I'd like to solve more problems and help Hoosiers with more opportunities by serving on more committees.

These places I've seen have clubbed my mind - they are so poor and depressing. I don't know what we can do to help these people, but we've got to do something.

Let's help people in this country with the resources we have.

It is very different trying to help a community organization than trying to sell yourself or sell a product.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

I would never want to take TOMS or myself into an issues debate. That's not what we're about. We're about helping people.

My wife and I started a program called Bears Without Borders. We raise money and hire local artisans to make stuffed animals and distribute them in their communities.

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

I support organizations that help people do better for themselves and the community.

Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.

It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'

Are our problems moving faster than our ability to solve them?

If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it.

We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries: we are in politics to deal with them.

The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities.

When you're someone who cares about making a difference in the world, and you have resources to do that, you have literally hundreds of choices you could make about how to do that.