Top 92 Quotes & Sayings by John Fleming - Page 2

Seeking justice is always our goal, but we see many too willing to circumvent that.

What happens is, in my own case - my own LLCs - the income flows to my personal tax return, whatever is left over after taxes are paid, I feed my family on the one hand, and on the other hand, I reinvest in my business.

Our constituents rightly hold us accountable for results.

There is a profiteer when it comes to oil. 36 to 63 cents per gallon is swept off the top. And who profits from that? The government profits from it. And what does the government do with much of that money? It puts it into so-called 'alternative energy,' with so-called phony 'green jobs' that we're yet to see being produced.

Most small businesses in this country today are taxed at the individual level as Corporation LLC. So whatever is cut out of those earnings is money taken out of capital for reinvestment for creating more jobs and opening up more locations.

At any time, somebody can blow themselves up and take Americans with them. They can blow up an airplane; they can crash an airplane. That's something we have to worry about every day - we spend 40 billion dollars yearly on homeland security. That has nothing to do with Crusades or any of that other nonsense.

I saw people, and I can't name them of course, that maybe were skeptical at first that were really sold on Donald Trump.

I think always, when you have a candidate promising free stuff, and another promising less stuff or nothing, the one who promises more is always going to have the advantage.

While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.

The liberal social experiment with our military continues. A same-sex marriage-like ceremony should not have occurred at Fort Polk, especially since the people of Louisiana have made it abundantly clear that our state does not recognize same-sex marriages or civil unions.

We've got our own power - the power of the purse.

I introduced H.Res 430, a congressional resolution calling upon the president to declare a National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement.

In my view, Obamacare is the most existential threat to our economy than anything we've ever had since the Great Depression, so I think a little bit of additional deficit is nothing compared to delaying if not repealing Obamacare.

I think that we need, you know, Sen. Vitter is quite conservative, and I think we need to replace a good strong conservative with another conservative.

We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.

The most effective thing we can do is to limit spending.

It's very clear that Louisiana is gonna be voting for Republicans for statewide elections going forward because that's just where we are as a state.

If we're going to change leadership, we need to do it in a very systematic and organized way.

We think our leadership has been too timid to go after corruption, and often times, they bow to the liberal progressive demands of the White House instead of standing up for our values.

We need to cut the capital gains tax; we need to take regulations off the backs of business and allow banks to once again lend.

We've got to change the way we do things.

Louisiana wants a leader that will take their values to D.C. and will fight for them without wavering.

We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.

The Freedom Caucus is very popular in my state.

America is much better than the leadership we have in Washington.

In terms of Republicans, we have got to get to our cohorts in the Republican Party to get them to understand if we are going to get this country to its traditional values... we're going to have to control our borders and manage this huge change in our culture that's occurring.

Louisiana's a very conservative state. When we've ever polled this, we've found that they like conservative reforms. They want us to fight back against our leadership and Democrats, so it's very consistent.

Whenever there's a bad law, it can be repealed or nullified.

Many of us have questions about what Trump's positions really are. We want to make sure we are on board with each other.

Washington faces many challenges these days, and today's United States Senate needs more trusted conservatives going there to make decisions and choices that put the people first and not the business-as-usual crowd.

We owe our law enforcement officers the highest respect.

Don't take risk, and don't get into debt.