Top 66 Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes

I have strong differences with Mr. Trump on a woman‘s right to choose and what kind of justices belong on the Supreme Court.

All in all, Trumpcare is a bad plan for older Americans.

There’s another important reason not to send the Dreamers packing: they are essential to preserving the social insurance programs on which older Americans rely.

The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.

Trumpcare would be devastating for millions of American families, but perhaps no one will bear the brunt of its cruelty more than older Americans.

A functioning democracy cannot stand when its people do not trust their leaders to uphold the law.

While U.S. investments in India are growing, we also need Indian investments in America.

China is eating our lunch with regard to renewable energy.

Ultimately, much of the dysfunction in Congress is due to the impact of big money, which drowns out the voices of working families and leads to the special treatment of special interests.

Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.

I’m looking forward to going to Congress to pursue my Working Families Agenda and find areas of bipartisan agreement to move forward on important legislation.

Before I was elected to Congress, I helped to create the public corruption unit in the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Unfortunately, business was good. Among the usual suspects were government contracts steered to insiders – leaving Illinois taxpayers holding the bag.

When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.

The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It’s a national security priority. It’s not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we’ll fall behind the rest of the world.

The American people need to know if public servants are operating in the best interests of the United States or the Kremlin.

If I’m privileged to be elected, I’d be blessed to represent a diverse district, including South Asians and Indian Americans.

In addition to skyrocketing premiums, Trumpcare also unravels protections that older Americans want and need in their health coverage.

There’s a lot of good, bipartisan legislation that passes in committee and then gets bottled up. As a businessman, it surprised me.

I’m a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you’re further starving the system.

My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.

As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.

We must have the strictest adherence to security procedures to protect against compromise by hostile foreign powers.

When you encounter some form of discrimination or maybe even worse, I urge you to alert others. Regardless of how small the incident is, it has to be brought to the attention of people like me and also the law enforcement agencies.

Americans want Washington to put aside political differences, find common ground, and start producing real economic solutions for the middle class.

When we came to this country, unfortunately, my father lost his job, and we were this close to destitution. We were put on food stamps. We were put in public housing.

Following well-established national security screening procedures and accurately informing Congress about them is not a joke or a political game. It is essential to guaranteeing that our national secrets are protected and to preventing possible blackmailing of key administration officials.

I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.

I am hopeful that both India and U.S.A. would be able to expand their counter-terror partnership through wider intelligence sharing and effective coordination.

So many of our businesses rely on green card holders – how are we supposed to attract these people if they think they’ll be detained at the airport if they go abroad for a wedding or just to show their baby to relatives?

In some ways, ‘decency‘ is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.

As an immigrant, I am grateful for the tremendous opportunities that this great nation has afforded me and my family. I am also aware of the ongoing challenges that immigrants confront, and understand that respecting law and borders is essential for keeping America strong.

We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America’s middle class and seniors and must do what it takes to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, including enabling the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs.

In my experience, union leaders are respected by their members.

My parents climbed their way to the middle class.

Congress increasingly represents the diversity of America.

If I am elected to Congress, I plan to introduce legislation tying Congressional pay to performance.

Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.

I think with the right leadership on both sides and the right president, we can get a lot done.

Voters should know what their representative is doing, what votes he casts, and who he pays, so my office will make this data readily available in a way which is easy to understand.

One of the positives of the Illinois delegation is the congressmen and women work together on issues of local concern in a lot of different ways.

Everyone agrees that our immigration system is broken. Building a wall with Mexico isn’t going to fix it.

Our country’s history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that ‘all men are created equal’ for the members of our ever-expanding national family: women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, gays and lesbians, the disabled, immigrants, and refugees.

Our best path to economic growth and global competitiveness is to invest in our people – not to provide huge new tax breaks to special interests.

I strongly support screening all visitors and potential immigrants thoroughly to prevent bad actors from entering the country.

In terms of what I wanted to do before I got into politics, I was a businessman. I ran a company that makes and sells infrared night vision military technology and solar technology, so I wanted to grow that company and pursue groundbreaking technology in each of those areas.

Mail enables businesses to deliver vital services and products, including medication, and allows these same businesses to receive payments in a timely way.

Donald Trump will become president even after losing the popular vote in our November elections by a wide margin. To govern effectively, he must appeal to a broader base than what he campaigned on and avoid the divisive rhetoric that alienated so many Americans.

I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most – hard-pressed working families struggling to reach or stay in the middle class.

When the chair of an investigating committee refuses to share vital findings or source information with any of his colleagues, his committee’s ability to function has been fundamentally undermined.

Cutting tax credits for education and training will result in more Americans working at minimum-wage jobs while U.S. companies go begging for the higher-paid skilled workers they need.

Every night at dinner, my father would say something about the greatness of the United States – and tell us to make sure the government is there for the next people who come along and need it.

Working with a Republican co-sponsor, Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, I introduced a bill to strengthen our nation’s career and technical education programs and more closely align them with the needs of local businesses and industries.

One of the best programs that the federal government sponsors is the Small Business Innovation Research program, in which more than 2.5 percent of federal research and development funding at the largest agencies goes directly to small businesses.

We need to cut unnecessary weapons programs like the F-35 fighter plane that cost trillions of dollars and don’t even work.

In the past, leaders of both parties have been able to reach across the partisan divide. They succeeded by retaining their own humanity and recognizing the same in their political opponents.

In truth, ending DACA will cost us tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.

In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.

Even people who have successfully obtained a visa are sometimes being turned back at the airport. Such incidents have never happened in the past but are increasing now because even low level officers of the border patrol department are being entrusted with too much discretion power on how they execute the laws.

Partisan politics is not my passion.

I’ve led programs that have helped thousands of individuals, small businesses, veterans, the disabled, farmers get low-interest loans to prosper.

We need to invest in our crumbling infrastructure to create jobs and remain economically competitive.

I hope that President-elect Trump will drop his unrealistic campaign pledge to deport millions of immigrants who’ve made their lives in this country and contribute to our country.

The possibility that members of the Trump team coordinated and colluded with agents of the Kremlin on Russia‘s interference in our elections is a profound and disturbing one, but it is pivotal that we approach this issue with the seriousness it deserves.

As a party, Democrats must focus on the pocketbook issues that our constituents care about every day when they wake up to go to work, drop off their kids at school, and tuck them into bed at night.