I'm very proud of the Italian heritage of my great-grandparents, who came here from Italy, and how they helped be a part of the American Dream, and that's something we want to continue to make available to everybody who wants to come here.
We're strongest when we're united, and we're united when everyone has an opportunity to contribute their talents and ideas.
I think it's encouraging that President Trump is talking about strengthening our national defense, something he ran on again.
Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.
My goal is to get leadership to bring more conservative policies to the floor; it's not the other way around to get conservatives to vote for something they don't like. It's to get a more conservative product, and we've actually delivered on a number of occasions there.
I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.
You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.
You can't say it's broken, but let's keep some of Obamacare. You have to start over.
People want smart energy policy.
There are going to be times when we disagree with our leadership, but ultimately, we've got to work hard to pull our leadership to the right and to move a conservative agenda forward and unite as conservatives if we're going to get things done.
I said I reject any form of bigotry, bigotry of all kinds.
We want to say nobody should lose their health care.
The states should have much more responsibility for infrastructure building.
When you get into this line of work, you're in public office, you expect you're gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That's part of the process.
Our Founding Fathers believed strongly in gun rights for citizens.
I am strongly opposed to any form of amnesty, including, especially, executive amnesty.
I just know how lucky I am.
Our argument is everybody ought to be paying lower rates, and we ought to be focused on growing the economy and rebuilding the middle class.
My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you.
At the end of the day, you are judged by your character. And look, I'm proud of my record of working to help people throughout my years of public service.
I've been very proud of a lot of the work I've done in New Orleans.
While we always strive to reach 218 with Republican votes, sometimes that is not possible with divided government, and the story of a bill that passed with 150 Republican votes is much more positive and assertive than the story of a bill that passes with 79 Republican votes.
We shouldn't be bailing out insurance companies under ObamaCare.
At the end of the day, I'm really proud of the work I did to help kids get an equal opportunity, and a lot of them have.
There's no excuse for breaking the law.
Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.
If you're holding a grudge against somebody over the battle you just went through, you might be working with them on the next bill.