Quotes from John Fleming


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I certainly don't think that taxpayers should subsidize abortions.


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.


I'm pro-free enterprise.


I'm grateful for the many Louisianans who have urged me to challenge Senator Landrieu in 2014.


I'm a public servant. And I work for the American people.


I was elected to represent my district, not to predict the future.


I want to see the farm piece passed, but the nearly a trillion dollars in SNAP spending for food stamps is way too much.


I see a bright, bright future for the Republican Party and conservatism in general.


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


I don't think we should run government based on economists' predictions.


We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like Western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we're going to continue down the other pathway, where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties, and that we remain a Christian nation.


I can't think of anything right now that could be more damaging for our economy than passing and putting into effect and implementing Obamacare.


Here's the question for my fellow Republicans: Do we want to be the first-ever GOP House majority to raise federal marginal income tax rates?


For nearly a century, Republican-controlled Houses held the line on tax rates, a Republican coup de pointe to Democratic tax-increase parries.


Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.


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


Class warfare has never created a job.


By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over.


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