Eric Ivan Cantor Quotes

• You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we’re not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It’s plain and simple as that.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

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  Tags in Fiscal, Train, Deliberately

• You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don’t need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Healthcare

• Whether it’s people walking off ‘The View’ when Bill O’Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Political, Freedoms

• What this bill says is it reiterates again the deadline, and that the Senate should act before the deadline, and that’s what the American people are expecting.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

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  Tags in People, American, Expecting

• What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we’re going to see magically an economic recovery.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President, Economic, Recovery

• Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it’s almost as if they just didn’t get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she’s been about. And here they’re going to put her back in charge.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Democratic, Members, House

• We’ve had Town Hall meetings, we’ve witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President’s health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don’t like this bill. They don’t want it.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Healthcare, President, American

• We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bureaucracy, Pay, Scales

• We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

• We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they’re denied by their insurer.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Plan, Universal, Programs, State

• We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Believe, Promoting, Choice

• We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mechanism, Personal, Choice

• The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration’s agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we’re not voting no for political expediency. We’ve got our principles, and we’re going to stand up and defend those.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Republicans, Administration, Political, Expediency

• The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Governing, Majority, Principles

• The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Senate, Act

• The American people elected us here to cut spending so we can create an environment for jobs in America. The House has acted. We have demonstrated that we want to see spending, discretionary spending, brought down to levels of 2008. We’ve seen no counteraction. We have seen no position that has been expressed by the other side at all.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Job

  Tags in American, People

• People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don’t need government intervening in every step.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Responsibility, Government

• Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

• Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money – especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that’s why we lost.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Majority, Corruption

• It’s all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion.

  Eric Ivan Cantor

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Purposes

Eric Ivan Cantor (30)

Birth:	6th June, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Lawyer, Politician

About

Eric Ivan Cantor was born in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He is an American politician, lawyer, and businessman, who served as the United States representative for Virginia's 7th congressional district from 2001 until 2014. A member of the Republican Party, he became House Majority Leader when the 112th Congress convened on January 3, 2011. He previously served as House Minority Whip from 2009 until 2011. He received his Bachelor of Arts from George Washington University in 1985. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from William & Mary Law School in 1988, and received a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in 1989.

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