Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too. "

Related Quotes:

" We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. "

" I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it. "

" America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus. "

" When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done. "

" Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better. "

" Mitt Romney's only bottom line is the one at the end of his own bank statement. The problem is that he confuses his own narrow, self-interest - and that of people like him - with the national interest. He thinks as long as we do right by the Mitt Romneys of the world, America will be just fine. "

" Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party. "

" If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? "

" To those like Mitt Romney who want to take us backwards, let's send a strong message in November: as we say in Brooklyn, 'Fuhgeddaboutit.' "

" Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. "

" Democrats don't relate to middle-class people. "

" When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,' it would be like Democrats saying, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is provide free Medicare at age 55.' We'd like to do that! But it won't bring the deficit down. That's for sure. "

" Economic conservatives like immigration reform, and in fact, many of them supported the bill that John McCain and I put together in the Senate. "

" The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages. "

" I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession. "

" Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11. "

" We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum. "

" When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private. "

" Everyone has a hole inside themselves. They don't know they had it until they have kids, and then that hole fills up. And it's so great; it's just God's greatest gift to us. "

" Arafat was a barrier to peace. "

" Reclassification is the best way to for us to preserve the Internet as an unfettered tool for communication and the sharing of ideas. "

" Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure. "

" There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision. "

" To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it, even though if I were president, I might not have. "

" Today, families like the one I grew up in still believe in that American dream. But as President Obama says, it's a make-or-break moment for the middle class. Mitt Romney's plans would make things worse. "

" My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love. "

" I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice. "

" What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants. "

" Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week. "

" But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere. "