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All Quotes by author - Corrine Brown

" A lot of people talk about running for office, but what are you going to do when you get there? It's about service - and there aren't enough hours in the day. "

" As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget. "

" As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal. "

" Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural area of north Florida and include 22 prisons, and convicted felons can't vote. "

" Everybody understands about expanding Medicaid. It's really simple. "

" I believe that tax dollars used to create a new school of engineering for Florida State University, when there is already a successful partnership in place with Florida A&M University, is counterproductive to increasing engineering graduates. "

" I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country. "

" I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage. "

" I don't do radio or TV. I do people. "

" I don't have to prove my innocence to the court or to the news media. "

" I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I work hard. I work 24/7. "

" If one of you pass out and go to the emergency room, the hospital has to see you. But when you go to the emergency room, you've had a stroke, or you've had a heart attack. If you had preventative medicine, you could maybe be taking your high blood pressure medicine so you wouldn't have a stroke and cut down the costs. "

" If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why. "

" I guess I'm a black woman with a mouth. "

" I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America. "

" I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it. "

" Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration? "

" I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again. "

" I think it is scary anytime anyone is coming at you asking questions. "

Asking Questions

" I will let the work I've done speak for me. "

" Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate. "

" Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system. "

" Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs. "

" So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida. "

" Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them. "

" Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves. "

" States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities. "

" The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later. "

" The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole. "

" This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation. "

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