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" 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
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" And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition. "
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You
" 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! "
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Well
" 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. "
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Permanent
Working
Tax
" We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place. "
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Past
Beginning
" I know that electing Hillary Clinton as our next president is critical for America's future. "
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Future
Know
Next
" 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
" And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives. "
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Say
Young
Health
" Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year. "
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Living
Judges
Judicial
" 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
" 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. "
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Past
People
Say
" Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate. "
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Media
Gender
Conflict
" 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
" Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins. "
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Party
Hard
Tea
" 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
" 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
" 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
" It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable. "
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Great
Disappointment
Behavior
" 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
Me
Job
" 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
" 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
" 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
" When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too. "
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Back
Woman
Insurance
" In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. "
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Diagnosed
Cancer
Breast Cancer
" If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes. "
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Driving
Go
Down
" 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. "
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Old
Need
People
" So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender. "
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Know
Questions
Gender
" Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists. "
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Where
Running
Position
" 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
" And American voters understand that if we want to keep fighting to move in the new - in a new direction, we've got a long way to go. And we need to make sure we continue with Democrats being in the majority. "
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Fighting
Way
Long
" Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry. "
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Leadership
Run
Democrats