Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Matt Gaetz

Agricultural products ranging from citrus and dairy to beef and chicken face stifling tariffs or nontariff barriers in many countries around the world.

Unilaterally disarming the American economy through crushing regulations will empower Washington but few others.

Upon further reflection, I think that the things Alex Jones has said and done are so hurtful to so many people that a member of Congress should not grace that platform and legitimize it, and I would not go back.

If Democrats insist on looking for skeletons in the closet, they should take a long look at themselves. They've hidden more than their fair share.

No one wants to be the next Pete Rose.

At best, a 100-day measurement of a new presidency is a meaningless abstraction. At worst, it's an invite to cheap politicking at the expense of the common good.

The Green Real Deal rejects regulation as the driving force of reform and instead unlocks the unlimited potential of American innovation and ingenuity.

My work on the Judiciary Committee has made me more aware of the InfoWars content than when I appeared previously in a very standard and respectful interview.

The biggest threat to the Trump movement is that Republicans in office demoralize our base because the only way we win now is by driving turnout among our voters. And if our voters just think we're weak, we don't fight, we don't do the things we say when we get elected? Then there is no future for us.

I strongly support the rights of transgender individuals. I will not denigrate or deny their struggles.

We're all normal, flawed people who have off-the-cuff thoughts.

The USRTA recognizes that the United States is the largest importer of goods even as it maintains, on average, the lowest combination of tariffs and nontariff barriers of any of its major trading partners.

There's not an American that would want to be investigated by someone they passed over for their old job back within the last 24 hours.

Choosing to disrespect our flag is an over-generalized indictment of the greatest nation on Earth.

I love going on Chris Hayes' show. It probably is my favorite because of the intensity of the intellectual combat.

In a world where the body politic has the attention span at times of a goldfish, yep, you've got to have the ability to reinvent yourself in this game many times.

The new conservative movement has to take on Trump's sense of boldness.

I did one cable news hit during my first 10 months in Congress.

Tax reform has been a congressional priority for decades. It should be a bipartisan issue. I don't know why anyone in Congress would want their constituents to pay more.

Democrats want to peer into every second of President Trump's life, hoping to find a smoking gun.

Mass migrations of climate refugees erode borders and nations, creating a global playground for terrorists and traffickers.

While we glorify football players for their accomplishments on the field, they are not heroes.

I never underestimate the power of the American people.

The black market poses a greater risk to the integrity of sports than open, visible, and regulated betting.

It is bizarre to see the NFL attacking an America that has treated it so well over the years. Taxpayers pay over 70 percent of the cost of stadiums. Our citizens pay more and more for tickets, and valuations of professional sports franchises have skyrocketed. Player compensation keeps growing.

Kneeling for the anthem does nothing to advance solutions to racial injustice, police brutality, or any other social plight. It is a slap in the face to patriotism itself. It is a statement that America as a country is no longer worth standing for.

In some egregious cases, cities built new stadiums even while their citizens were still paying off old stadiums that had since closed. This is corporate welfare run amok, and a gross misuse of American citizens' tax money - something the government must treat with respect.

Tax Day is right up there with 'Root Canal Day' in terms of days that no one wants to celebrate.

I wish climate change wasn't real.

Legalizing betting would create over a hundred thousand new jobs, over $6 billion in wages, and inject $25 billion into our economy.

We shouldn't tell prosecutors to 'pick and choose' what laws to uphold.

The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.

I will be damned if the people in South Florida are going to dilute the legal votes of my constituents, who have a right to an honest, fair, representative republic.

No reasonable American believes that someone can investigate their own boss.

I'm very concerned about the integrity of the vote and the ballot, and that's why we've got to secure our cyberdefenses.

For the good of the American people, we must place our own interests first.

I'm a Christian, and I believe the Immaculate Conception was how Jesus was born.

We are a nation of laws, not department-wide memos.

Holding Congressional hearings is the purview of the majority, and during the first years of the Obama administration, Democrats could not be bothered.

I don't know why anyone would want businesses and families and individuals nationwide to suffer. But by voting against tax reform, Democrats showed that was exactly what they stand for: less money for families and more money into Washington, D.C.

The reality of climate change is a stupid thing to argue about.

When Federal law conflicts with state laws and the will of the American people, it's time to change the laws, not circulate edicts.

I'm on the pro-science side of the Republican Party.

Why should 'big sports' get tax breaks that businesses and families across America don't get?

A melting Arctic creates a more permissive environment for Russia and China to seize territory.

I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.

Congress has broad powers to regulate and control commerce. Congress also cannot force a state to 'un-decriminalize' something; states' rights are routinely upheld by the Court.

President Trump is not an isolationist and builds closer friendships when he can.

Ask anybody on Main Street whether it makes any sense to allow foreign countries to charge higher tariffs than we charge them, and the answer will surely be a resounding 'heck no!'

People in the media grew up in the Northeast and can't comprehend the notion that there are people who like to go out to the clay pits and shoot and, afterward, go eat fried chicken.

If players want to protest, let them do it on their own time and on their own dime.

Bureaucrats lodged deep in agencies slow the impact of Trump's demands. Low-level staffers leak private meetings. The Department of Justice has gone rogue. The Swamp, it turns out, fights back.

President Trump says his highest priority is America and the American people. The fact that this idea has been met with shock is itself shocking; if America's success is not the president's goal, what is? Is it looking good in photo-ops, while debt grows, jobs dwindle, bureaucracy reigns supreme, and the American people suffer?

It's easy to have strong, visceral feelings about disrespecting America. It's harder to get passionate about tax law.

Democrats justify anything they do against Trump as being righteous, even if it's morally wrong or even if it's illegal, because they're so driven to stop Trump.

Climate change isn't something people get to choose to believe or not: it's happening.

I don't trust CNN anchors.

History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who deny the science of climate change. Similarly, those Democrats who would use climate change as a basis to regulate out of existence the American experience will face the harsh reality that their ideas will fail.

President Trump's coalition clearly involves creating massive turnout in areas where he's popular.

I do think that if you've got a compelling argument to make in this country, going on television, going online, being on social media, you've got a broader ability to be effective at communicating your message if you engage a wide span of platforms rather than just standing on the House floor in the middle of the night, speaking to an empty room.