35 Quotes by Steve Chabot

Politics is a contact sport.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they’ll generally stay out of trouble.

There’s so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They’re too concerned with blasting each other.

You have to starve the Beast. That’s one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it’s going to be spent.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn’t seem right, don’t do it. If it violates your own principles, don’t do it.

I think it’s very easy to get corrupted.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don’t.

We’ve passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.