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" People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer. "

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" Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

President

Act

Title

" Even the Republicans themselves have acknowledged they have a diversity problem. If you look at their autopsy report following the 2012 election, they have specifically said they would continue to lose presidential elections unless they address the problem that they have with their alienation of minority groups. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Problem

Diversity

Election

" Dig just a little bit deeper. Work just a little bit harder. And don't get weary! Remember this is personal! Let's finish what we started, and re-elect President Barack Obama! "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Remember

Personal

Work

" Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Women

Live

Heart

" I'm so proud to represent the people of South Florida. I was so honored when President Obama asked me to serve as chair of the Democratic Party. But there's one job I'm even more proud of, and that's being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Proud

Job

" President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won't admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Life

Closing

Admit

" Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it! "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

You

Need

Judges

" And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Need

Work

Help

" But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Top

Together

Class

" We are, as a Democratic Party, really highlight and emphasize inclusiveness and diversity at our convention, and so we want to give every opportunity to grass-roots activists and diverse committed Democrats to be able to participate, attend, and be a delegate at the convention. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Opportunity

Diversity

Want

" We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her! "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Enough

Health

Right

" The difference between a Democrat and Republican is that Democrats fight to make sure everybody has an opportunity to succeed, and the Republicans are strangled by their right-wing extremists. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Republican

Succeed

Fight

" I know that electing Hillary Clinton as our next president is critical for America's future. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Future

Know

" We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Colleagues

Change

Washington

" We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

People

Leadership

Sacrifice

" We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Long

Waiting

Time

" We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Permanent

Working

Tax

" With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Challenges

Opportunity

People

" The Romney-Ryan plan would replace the guarantee of Medicare with a voucher that wouldn't keep up with costs. Congressman Ryan says that he wants Medicare to be around for his grandkids. Well, if that's the case, he had better vote for Barack Obama! "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Plan

Vote

Well

" Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Party

Hard

Tea

" The reality is I have a job as a national party chair that, one, requires a thick skin. It requires me to be able to absorb the body blows so our candidates can stay above the fray. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Body

Reality

Job

" Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Women

Complacency

Generation

" Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Dictatorship

Table

Leadership

" The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

America

Republican

Loss

" Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Breast Cancer

Risk

Know

" Democrats will come together as we should to make sure that we can defeat Donald Trump and elect our party's nominee. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Democrats

Will

Together

" At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Justice

World

Law

" We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Old

Need

People

" This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Family

Good

Step

" The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them. "

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Progress

People

Leadership