We have to defend America and be strong.
— Kevin McCarthy
The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.
The whip's office is almost more educational - educating members on the bill itself, listening to members ahead of time.
I try to drive my office more as a start-up of ideas.
If you're in the minority, every advantage is against you, right? So the only advantage you have against the majority is they're too lazy to know their own rules, right? So it's like a game of poker.
I think there's an ability to make an immigration system that works.
The first priority of the Republican majority is the security of Americans.
Budgets are blueprints and priorities.
We have the best-trained military in the world.
Too many people in Washington care about power institutions, not caring about changing the lives of everyday Americans.
I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.
The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.
Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.
When government grows, it breaks the family.
Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster.
Fortunately, there is a project that will create jobs, provide direct investment in our economy, and move us closer to our longstanding goal of becoming energy independent: the Keystone XL pipeline.
Every American, whether Democrat or Republican, agrees that job creation and affordable energy will be crucial to our economic turnaround.
I don't need a strong EPA. I don't need to fund a lot of money there.
I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.
The thing that we tell - that I tell - members is, 'Vote your district. Vote your conscience; just don't surprise us.'
I like to be around people, so I ended up being roommates, right? I had a house. I lived with four guys.
Every sandwich I sold, the city got more sales tax, the state got more. But they came in and they would want to give me a ticket because I have a sign outside trying to get more business, right?
We're going to do tax reform to let people keep more of what they earn, grow an economy, and be able to save for your children's future and buy a new house.
The best thing for the American public is that we do our job. That Washington changes. That the Senate and the House get together and fix their differences and find common ground.
It's the old Washington fiscal game of Jenga. You try to build as much debt as you can take, as much tax as you can take, until you topple the entire economy.
If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.
I'm willing to fight, but I want to fight to win.
Reagan was president and had Democrats control the House and Senate, and they reformed the tax code. Clinton was president, and he had Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole; they reformed welfare and balanced the budget.
How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.
Peace comes through strength, not through retreat.
I don't want to become Washington.
The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once an object crosses the event horizon, it cannot escape and will be ripped to pieces, atom by atom.
Despite support from a majority of Americans, a majority of the House of Representatives, and a majority of the Senate, Keystone XL is stuck - stalled by special-interest politics.
For restaurants that have a minimum gratuity charge on large groups, the IRS will now count those tips as regular wages rather than traditional tips that we are all familiar with when we dine out. Ask any server, and they will tell you that this will directly affect their day-to-day lifestyle.
A lot of times, people just want to be an individual. But if you really want to win, at the end of the day, it's not about you just achieving something. Everybody can achieve more if they work together.
I believe in being a happy conservative: that you're happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.
Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward.
You can't serve on every committee. But you can know what happened, what the debate was, who said what.
You have to reform the visa program. The chain migration system doesn't work. You need a guest workers program.
We are committed to doing trade, tax reform, infrastructure. All we need is someone that wants to work with us.
I will tell you that the special relationship that America has with the Israeli people transcends any of the politics.
I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. You are the first one to work, last one to leave, and last one to be paid.
We know Africa does not have the same medical treatments as we do.
Everybody has a say, everybody has a voice, because everyone that comes to the House had about 750,000 people they're representing . And you want those voices heard.
The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.
We can't be afraid to call the enemy what it is: Radical Islamic terrorism.
When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably.
Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
Keystone will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, North Dakota, and Montana to Gulf Coast refineries.
