Top 255 Repeal Quotes & Sayings

We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.

I don't like the repeal of the estate tax.

For seven years, I have been hearing repeal and replace from Congress. And I have been hearing it loud and strong. And then, when we finally get a chance to repeal and replace, they don't take advantage of it. We will let Obamacare fail, and then the Democrats are going to come to us and they're going to say, how do we fix it, how do we fix it?

You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.

We are not going to repeal Obamacare.

Americans' information independence is under attack, whether it's the repeal of net neutrality or the repeal of broadband privacy protections.

I still strongly support a full repeal of Obamacare.

My poll numbers are going through the roof. You know why? I really believe a big part of it is Obamacare, because we`re going to repeal it and replace it. Obamacare has to be replaced. And we will do it and we will do it very, very quickly. It is a catastrophe. If we don`t repeal and replace Obamacare, we will destroy American health care forever.

He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

My worry now is that many people are talking about a partial repeal of Obamacare. If you only repeal part of it and you leave if some sort of Obamacare light, which some are talking about, my fear is the situation actually gets worse.

I'm committed to voting to repeal Obamacare or defending it as much as possible.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

I've supported the repeal of ObamaCare.

[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal these state laws, but failed. So they appealed to the federal government, which responded with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But this federal law didn't simply repeal state laws compelling segregation. It also prohibited voluntary segregation. What had been mandatory became forbidden. Neither before nor after the Civil Rights Act were people free to make their own decisions about who they associated with.

I'm not a supporter of ObamaCare. I voted to repeal it, to defund it, et cetera. But we do need to move on.

I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank.

I don't think it's so much Trump lobbing us for changes. It's us asking him for help in getting the changes done. I think Trump has the bully pulpit. He has a great deal of influence with the Republican Party on both the House and the Senate side. The bill right now to the conservative point of view doesn't have enough repeal. It looks like we're keeping a lot of Obamacare. So we actually think that there needs to be more repeal. That's the message I took to Trump.

One thing we have to do: Repeal and replace the disaster known as Obamacare.

My priority is to repeal the Iran Nuclear Deal and vote to do that. I think it's extremely dangerous... you don't negotiate with terrorists.

On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done.

To those who say it would be too difficult to repeal and replace Obamacare, I say it's a two step process. We repeal the Pelosi Congress in 2010 and replace the Obama Administration in 2012.

I'll help repeal Obamacare in my first term, or go home, because you deserve a senator who gets the job done or gets out of the way. Repeal or go home. That's my pledge to you.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

I'm certainly when it comes to health care - I mean, we want to repeal and replace "Obama care." We're going to repeal - "Obama care" is a total disaster for this country, a total and complete disaster. We're going to come up with plans, and there are lots of alternatives. We're going to come up with plans that are far less expensive, better for the people and better for the country.

Right now in the insurance markets, we have sort of a disaster unfolding, a downward spiral, adverse selection, premiums in the individual market going through the roof. People can't afford insurance and insurance companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars. If you repeal part of Obamacare to get rid of the individual mandate but keep some of the ideas, that people can still buy insurance after they're sick, the situation gets extraordinarily worse. And so what we're seeing now could be tenfold greater if you only repeal part of Obamacare.

Clinton vetoed the repeal of the marriage tax. I guess Bill figures if he's married, then we all have to suffer.

We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.

We need to repeal and replace Obamacare.

We could repeal Dodd-Frank. I think that would be a big help.

We've begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare.

A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the "Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act," was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby's shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week. Don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting that the name of that one piece of legislation somehow led to the horror of this weekend - but is it really necessary to put the word "killing" in the title of a major piece of legislation?

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Fully repeal Obamacare and replace it with health savings accounts. And we can do that.

It's time to repeal gun bans everywhere in the United States.

Every Republican that I know of ran on the full repeal of Obamacare...The voters have spoken.

If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

If anything, one would think we learn from Brexit is we need a strong, stable banking system, not one to repeal the consumer bureau and repeal Dodd-Frank and give Wall Street what it wants. That would be the worst kind of response.

I campaigned in 2012 all over this country for months: 'Repeal and replace Obamacare.' That was not the mandate of the voters. If they wanted to repeal Obamacare, the 2012 election would have been probably significantly different.

We all say that we want to repeal Obamacare, and we would all love a clean, full repeal. But the truth is, sometimes it's kind of like making sausage. You have to do it one step at a time. You've got to approach it from the standpoint that you make substantial gains today, and then the next opportunity, you make more.

My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.

People voted for Donald Trump. They want to repeal and replace ObamaCare. And we will.

Obamacare rewrote Medicare... so if you're going to repeal and replace Obamacare, you have to address those issues as well... What people don't realize is that Medicare is going broke, that Medicare is going to have price controls... So you have to deal with those issues if you're going to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!

I say we need to repeal Obamacare as fast as we can.

Congress needs to work in a bipartisan way to fix the Affordable Care Act, not repeal it.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

We know there are states, like Alaska, where there are not a lot of providers. How do we work on issues like that? How do we work on making sure that the small-business part of this works better?... And if people have [alternate] plans, let's compare them and see. Access, affordability, and quality - that's what this is about. [But] "repeal" is a symbol of something that I don't think is connected to the substance of what's happening. Do you want to take away care from people who have preexisting conditions? [Repeal] takes you backward.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

We don't want to repeal the Second Amendment.

[The Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration.