Mike Johnson

Congress will keep steady hands at the wheel on this.

A balance is what we're after. I think the conversation tomorrow will help us along that way.

Instead of just smothering this with red tape, which is always the government's reflex, and I think would be wrong and frankly dangerous to national security if we did it here, we want to continue the innovation.

It’s a contrast election, and people are making a contrast between common-sense solutions and candidates, and really crazy, which is represented by the other side.

We cannot have a moratorium on the development of AI, OK, because then we will lose our edge to China, and that has serious national security implications for every American family.

If they want to slow it down, they should.

They don’t need the government to tell them to slow it down.

Nobody in the room knows yet what that should look like.

We’ve been working on this for years and we’re right there where we need to be.

We cannot put a moratorium on this because China will overlap us, and that’s the challenge.

The clips that we’ll be using from this for the next 55 days will be very valuable to us to draw the contrast between these two sides and to let people know what’s really at stake in this midterm.

I know there will be a lot of eyeballs on the convention and what’s happening here.

The timing’s important because it’s close enough to the election to make a difference, but it’s also before early voting begins nationwide.

I don’t think it’s a mistake.

These are 90-10 public opinion issues, and more than 70 percent of Democrats want to do it, but not the Democrats in the House and Senate, and so we’ve got to go around them.

Some people made individual decisions based upon what's best for their district and all that, but we'll have at least an appearance by most of our members.

Two nights of earned media on every station in America. We'll parade all of our stars across the stage, talk about our extraordinary record of achievement. The president will look into the camera at the end and say, ‘I am on the ballot,’…

What we're going to highlight at that convention is the fact that this is not your father's Democrat Party.

This is not a midterm like any other, because we actually have a competition against communism now, and that's a very serious thing. It's going to animate voters coast to coast.

I’ve been saying this over and over, but Republicans are going to defy history in 63 days and we’re going to hold this House majority.

Of course we’re in the middle of a critical midterm election.

I’ll point out that there’s almost 600 pieces of that landmark legislation that are still sitting over in the other chamber in the Senate.

We delivered the lowest violent crime rate in 126 years, the lowest level of illegal border crossings in half a century, a tax advantaged investment account for every American child, the first ever nationwide school choice program, the…

In the last year and a half here, we delivered the largest middle and working class tax cut in American history and also prevented the biggest tax hike in American history that would have happened by default last December had we not…

The rule has passed. Many of you thought that would not happen today, but we passed a rule to continue business this week. Republicans are here to work.