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" The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them. "
Tammy Duckworth
Opportunity
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" I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest. "
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" We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn't give up on anyone who hasn't given up on themselves. "
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Citizens
Up
Nation
" It was the combination of hard work and a hand up that allowed me to become one of the first women to fly in combat missions and achieve my American Dream. "
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Work
American Dream
Hard Work
" I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening. "
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Home
Light
" I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees. "
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Father
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" We have an obligation to our men and women in uniform - and to future generations - to do something about the issue of climate change. "
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Future
" Whether defending our nation as a Black Hawk pilot abroad or serving our veterans and those in need at home, my life has been enriched by the opportunities I've had to serve my country and fellow citizens, both in and out of uniform. "
Tammy Duckworth
Veterans
My Life
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" Female service members are so integrated into the military, so critical and vital to all functions of the military, from combat service support to combat support, to direct combat, that we could not go to war as a nation - we could not defend America - without our women. "
Tammy Duckworth
Women
War
Support
" I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier. "
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Fact
Soldier
Interest
" At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future. "
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Work Hard
Work
Opportunity
" The summer before I started college, my parents walked everywhere instead of taking the bus. Once a week, they would hand over $10 to the university housing office, a deposit so I could move into the dorms in the fall. "
Tammy Duckworth
Fall
Week
Parents
" The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country. "
Tammy Duckworth
Country
Talk
Me
" Veterans are my life's work. From the day my buddies saved my life in Iraq, I've woken up every single day dedicated to taking care of veterans and doing my best for veterans. "
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Care
Best
Life
" I spent twenty years in the Army; of course it's going to color the things I talk about. If anyone spends twenty years doing anything, that's going to play a part in who you are as a human being. "
Tammy Duckworth
Color
Army
You
" When I joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 1992, there were no female four-star generals. I still remember the day in 2008 when a woman first achieved that rank. "
Tammy Duckworth
Rank
Army
Remember
" I admire Governor Blagojevich's unbending commitment to giving every person in Illinois access to health care. "
Tammy Duckworth
Care
Giving
Commitment
" If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk. "
Tammy Duckworth
Flying
Still
Desk
" I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost. "
Tammy Duckworth
Personally
Seen
Medical
" My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War. "
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Service
Family
Student
" We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq. "
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New
War
Starting
" We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us. "
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American Dream
Rest
Chance
" Each and every time I went in for IVF treatments, I knew there was a bipartisan group of Congresswomen praying for me, and I was honored that the same group was there at my baby shower. "
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Group
Baby
Time
" I do not have PTSD, but if I watch part of a movie like 'The Hurt Locker,' or when I spend time around Blackhawk helicopters, I will close my eyes that night and live an entire day in Iraq, flying my missions. I remember the smell and the feel and the heat and everything about it. Then I wake up in Illinois, and I'm exhausted. "
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Flying
Live
Night
" How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it? "
Tammy Duckworth
Educated
More
College
" I had been pursuing a Ph.D. in political science when my National Guard unit was sent to Iraq. Eight months into our deployment, in November 2004, a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents tore through the pilot's side of the Blackhawk helicopter I was flying. "
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Science
Political
Flying
" Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college. "
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Go
College
Me
" Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school. "
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Home
Childhood
High School
" Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return. "
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Greatest
Women
Treasure
" I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard. Because I don't know why I was saved. I don't know. "
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Day
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Work
" I grew up a daughter of a United States Marine, a daughter of a man so proud to be an American. "
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Man
Up
American