124 Quotes by Kevin McCarthy

If I was 20 years old, I would buy a boat and two or three permits ... but you?re talking about a lot of money and you don?t know if (the fishing) is going to be closed tomorrow. It?s a gamble.

I don't need a strong EPA. I don't need to fund a lot of money there.

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.

Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.

I don't live in D.C. I keep an air mattress in my office.

I want a leader that sets out a path. I want one that doesn't just talk about cuts, but talks about the shining city on the hill. We're only going to get out of this problem if we grow this economy.

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.

When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

You can't serve on every committee. But you can know what happened, what the debate was, who said what.