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It would be one thing if we found a certain piece of technology in the cockpit or a certain control tower where there were a lot of issues, but instead what we’re finding is that pilots, ground crews and controllers alike seem to be experiencing this uptick. Some have described it as a kind of rust.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are particularly concerned because we have seen an uptick in serious close calls.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re not going to wait for something still worse to happen to act now.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I have been briefed by FRA leadership and spoke with Gov. DeWine to offer our support after the derailment today in Clark County, Ohio. No hazardous material release has been reported, but we will continue to monitor closely and FRA personnel are en route.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I was focused on just making sure that our folks on the ground were all set but could have spoken sooner about how strongly I felt about this incident and that’s a lesson learned for me.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’ve had it, we have had situation after situation where even modest, reasonable reform gets just a full court press.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Anybody who has seen fit to get on television and talk about this incident, talk about this issue, can do right by the people of East Palestine and everybody else who lives near a railroad, not just when it comes to this case, but when it comes to the future, by getting on the right side of this issue, and helping to raise – not lower – the bar of accountability for the railroad industry.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
From the very moment that it opened, this bridge has stood as one of the most essential and recognizable in our country.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Their system really has completely melted down, i made clear that our department will be holding them accountable for their responsibilities to customers, both to get them through this situation and to make sure that this can’t happen again.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I can't talk about campaigns and elections while I'm in this capacity, but the president's made clear his intentions, i'm proud to be part of this team and very proud to support everything the president is doing. We've got a lot to show for it and our work is just beginning.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The conversation in Washington has always been about the next fight, the next hill, the next bill -- so much so that I think some folks seeing the tug of war over' Build Back Better' kind of lost track of the fact that the infrastructure law passed, it is important for them to know that that this bridge over the rail yard in Chattanooga that we just announced is coming to you because the President's vision and ability to work with Congress, both sides of the aisle, to get funding for this.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We want to make that sure we're being thoughtful. So right now, if you have input on this proposed rule, there is a window to make your voice heard at the Department of Transportation website. And, of course, we're continuing to assess other measures that we can take to improve the passenger experience.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Better fuel economy is going to continue to reduce our reliance on foreign oil and protect families from future price spikes, which of course is top of mind today, as we deal with the impacts from Putin's war, even if all of the oil we use in the USA were made in the USA, the price of it is still subject to powers and dynamics outside of the USA.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The transportation sector in America is our largest source of climate pollution and a major contributor to local air quality challenges.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Even if all of the oil we use in the USA were made in the USA, the price of it is still subject to powers and dynamics outside the USA.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If you look at our fiscal policy, it is true, the deficit has gone down, and down by a remarkable amount.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’m still surprised that some people were surprised when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a White and a Black neighborhood, or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly Black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach, or that would have been in New York, was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While all of us at USDOT will miss Steve as a leader and as a colleague, we are very happy for him and his wife, Janice, as they embark upon this next chapter together.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
When we have the guidance saying that is the right thing to do, I will be as relieved as any traveling American that we can move on to the next phase.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I believe that good policy is good politics, i believe that at the end of the day, the whole point of campaigning and elections is that is if you win them, you get to govern.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Well it's possible, certainly many states have taken that step, including my own, but it's not the only approach.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Certainly one of the concerns with the gas tax is it’s likely not as progressive as the federal income tax, for example.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There's a classic parlor game of trying to find a little bit of daylight between running mates, if people want to play that game we could look into why an evangelical Christian like Vice President Mike Pence wants to be on a ticket with a president caught with a porn star.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't know why you would want to be in a room with other people if you were contagious with a deadly disease and you care about other people.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
What we're going to see tonight is two very different people with two very different ideas for what matters. We're going to see President Trump turn on the distraction machine like President Trump always does, think up something crazy to get the Twittersphere going, and Vice President Biden is going to be talking about us — not us political figures — us the American people.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Beau Biden is right : this is a contest for the soul of the nation. And to me, that contest is not between good Americans and evil Americans. It's the struggle to call out what is good in every American, it's up to us. Will America be a place where faith is about healing and not exclusion ? Can we become a country that lives up to the truth that Black lives matter ? Will we handle questions of science and medicine by turning to scientists and doctors ? Will we see to it that no one who works full time can live in poverty ?
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Especially in the era of the pandemic, we're seeing just how important leadership is at every level, certainly in Congress, but also in the state and local offices, and yet, ironically there's also less attention available to these races than ever just because of everything that's going on.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I do think it will be different, we had a ton of energy and a ton of focus in 2018 and it helped these leaders get elected. It's going to be a new dynamic in 2020 for all kinds of things.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're lining up a great slate of guests, patrick Stewart is coming on, so we are very excited about that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Hopefully some funnier minds than mine will be doing some writing for that. I think it is going to be fun, the thing about running a presidential campaign is you will have been focused on one thing and one thing only. It is nice to be able to zoom out and come back at life.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
His interpretation of Scripture is pretty different from mine, his has a lot more to do with sexuality and, I don't know, a certain view of rectitude. Even if you buy into that, how could he allow himself to become the cheerleader of the porn star presidency ?
Found on CNN 4 years ago
And that's the thing I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand, that if you got a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me -- your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That's why I can't even read the LGBT media anymore, because it's all,' he's too gay,'' not gay enough,'' wrong kind of gay,' like, oh jeez. all I know is life became a lot easier when I just started allowing Pete Buttigieg to be Pete Buttigieg, and I'll let other people write up whether I'm' too this' or' too that.'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have seen what America can do, and so have you. After all, you're looking at someone who, as a young man growing up, wondered if something deep inside of him meant that he would forever be an outsider, would never wear the uniform, never be accepted, never know love, and now you are looking at that same young man, a veteran, a mayor, happily married, asking for you to vote for president of United States.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You will never know who's taking their lead from you, who's watching you and deciding that they can be a little braver, because you have been brave, when I was trying to figure out who I was, I was afraid that who I was might mean that I could never make a difference. And what wound up happening instead, is that it's a huge part of the difference I get to make.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If talking about hope and belonging sounds optimistic for a time like this, fine, then call it optimistic, but do not call it naïve, because I believe in these things not based on my age, but based on my experience.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Today is a moment of truth ... the truth is that the path has narrowed to a close for our candidacy if not for our cause, our goal has always been to unify Americans to help defeat Donald Trump and to win the era for our values.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Every day we'll do the math, we so enjoyed having the Carters in South Bend.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
So we must recognize that at this point in the race the best way to keep faith with those goals and ideals is to step aside and help bring our party and our country together, so tonight, I am making the difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the presidency.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I know that as this campaign ends, there comes disappointment that we won't continue, but I hope that everyone who has been part of this in any way knows that he campaign that you have built and the community that you have created is only the beginning of the change that we are going to make together.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The case here is simple, it is time for a new generation of leadership in our country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's a long way for us to go. Life here is far from perfect. But we've changed our trajectory and shown a path forward for communities like ours. And that's why I'm here today.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you want to keep the House in Democratic hands, you might want to check with the people who actually turned the House blue -- 40 Democrats who are not running on your platform. ... They are running away from your platform as fast as they possibly can.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I can tell you exactly how it all adds up. It adds up to four more years of Donald Trump, if you think the last four years has been chaotic, divisive, toxic, exhausting, imagine spending the better part of 2020 with Bernie Sanders versus Donald Trump.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I can tell you exactly how it all adds up. It adds up to four more years of Donald Trump.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I can tell you exactly how it all adds up. It adds up to four more years of Donald Trump, not only is this a way to get Donald Trump re-elected, we got a House to worry about, we got a Senate to worry about.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Senator Sanders believes in taking away that choice, removing people from having the option of a private plan and replacing it with a public plan whether you want it or not.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Together we are going to end the international embarrassment of the United States of America, our great country, being the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I don't think we can allow ourselves to get to the point where it feels like fighting is the point, politics may be fierce sometimes but it's not just about combat.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I believe the best way to defeat Donald Trump and deliver for the American people is to broaden and galvanize the majority that supports us on the critical issues, sen. Sanders believes in an inflexible ideological revolution that leaves out most Democrats, not to mention most Americans.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I respect Bernie Sanders, Sen. Bernie Sanders, i believe the ideals Bernie Sanders talks about our ideals we all share. But I also believe that the way we will build the movement to defeat President Donald Trump in November is to call people into our tent, not to call them names online.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We dare not ignore, we dare not dismiss and we absolutely dare not attack those voices in the Democratic Party focusing on keeping those seats in the right hands.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I believe the best way to defeat Donald Trump and deliver for the American people is to broaden and galvanize the majority that supports us on the critical issues, bernie Sanders believes in an inflexible ideological revolution that leaves out most Democrats, not to mention most Americans.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That is the choice before us, we can prioritize either ideological purity or inclusive victory. We can either call people names online or we can call them into our movement. We can either tighten a narrow and hardcore base or open the tent to a new and broad and big-hearted American coalition.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've got to wake up as a party, we could wake up two weeks from today, the day after Super Tuesday, and the only candidates left standing will be Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg, the two most polarizing figures on this stage.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Ours is the only campaign that has beaten Bernie Sanders anywhere in the country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Before we rush to nominate Sen. Sanders in our one shot to take on this President, let us take a sober look at what is at stake for our party, for our values, there is so much on the line, and one thing we know for sure is that we absolutely must defeat Donald Trump and everything Donald Trump represents.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
So let me be very clear to my good friends in the The Culinary Union, a great union, i will never sign a bill that will reduce the health care benefits they have. We will only expand it for them, for every union in America, and for the working class of this country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm thinking, for example, of the culinary workers here in Nevada, who fought so hard, those strikes and those negotiations, to get excellent health care plans. Who are we to tell them that they have to give up those plans ?
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Turning to someone like Mayor Bloomberg who thinks he can buy this election is no better a way to succeed than turning to somebody like Senator Sanders who wants to burn the house down.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Most Americans don't see where they fit if they have to choose between a socialist who thinks money is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You're staking your candidacy on your Washington experience. You're on the committee that oversees border security. You're on the committee that does trade, you're literally in part of the committee that's overseeing these things and were not able to speak to literally the first thing about the politics of the country to our south.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Most Americans don't see where they fit if they've got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power, let's put forward somebody who is actually a Democrat.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We can actually deliver health care without taking it away from anyone.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This one got a little bit fun this last few days. Rush Limbaugh was saying things about us, i'm pretty good at holding my tongue. But it is tempting to point out some differences between my understanding of family values and those of this President and his supporters like Rush Limbaugh.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The idea of the likes of Rush Limbaugh or Donald Trump lecturing anybody on family values.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Thanks to you, a campaign that some said shouldn't be here at all, has shown that we are here to stay, so many of you turned out -- diehard Democrats, independents unwilling to stay on the sidelines, and even some newly former Republicans ready to vote for a politics defined by how many we call in, instead of by who we push out.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In this election season we have been told by some that Pete Buttigieg must either be for revolution, or Pete Buttigieg are for the status quo. But where does that leave the rest of us ? Most Americans don't see where they fit in that polarized vision, and we can't defeat the most divisive President in modern American history by tearing down anybody who doesn't agree with us 100 % of the time.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Well, Bernie's pretty rich, and I would happily accept a contribution from him.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I know some of you are asking: What business does the South Bend mayor have seeking the highest office in the land?
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Well, Barack Obama's right, I'm not. And neither is he. Neither is any of us running for president.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This isn't 2008, it's 2020 and we are in a new moment calling for a different kind of leadership.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm here to carry those voices to Washington, to bring solutions not from Washington but to our nation's capital, because I believe that we would be well-served if we could start to get Washington to work a little more like our best-run cities and towns rather than the other way around.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I believe that I have the judgment to help us get through these situations where, obviously, the vice president made the wrong decision when it came to such an important moment in our foreign policy, and looking forward, we've got to recognize just how much is going to be on the plate of the next president that is different in kind from what we have faced before.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I would not have said even five years ago what I believe now, which is that incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're not going to let Hunter Biden change the subject. This is not about Hunter Biden or Vice President Hunter Biden or any Hunter Biden. This is about an abuse of power by the President, look, the vice president and I and all of us are competing but we've got to draw a line here. To be the kind of president, to be the kind of human being, who would seek to turn someone against his own son, who would seek to weaponize a son against his own father, is an unbelievably dishonorable thing that is just one more example of why we as a party have to be completely united.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I hear Vice President Biden saying that this is no time to take a risk on someone new, but history has shown us that the biggest risk we could take with a very important election coming up is to look to the same Washington playbook and recycle the same arguments -- and expect that to work against a president like Donald Trump.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is why people here in the Midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general and Capitol Hill in particular.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I know why hope went out of style for a while in our political vocabulary in a dark and divided moment.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are absolutely electrified by the energy that we are coming here with, i'm also mindful and humbled by the fact that New Hampshire is New Hampshire, and New Hampshire is not the kind of place to let Iowa or anybody else tell you what to do.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Well, if that argument is about electability and the ability to win, we just had the first election of the 2020 process. And I think that's my answer.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're in New Hampshire now, new Hampshire is a state that has never been told what to do.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If that argument is about electability, and the ability to win, we just had the first election of the 2020 process. And I think that's my answer.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That's fantastic news, first of all, I want to say, Sen. Sanders clearly had a great night too and I congratulate him and his supporters.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That is fantastic news, we are looking to New Hampshire and beyond.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It validates for a kid somewhere in a community wondering if Pete Buttigieg belongs or she belongs or they belong in their own family that if you believe in yourself and your country, there is a lot backing up that belief.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I can give my answer, but starting tomorrow you can give your answer.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We've got to remember that we're all more than how we voted in the last election, how you vote in the last election doesn't define you, and this is our opportunity to focus on the future.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
One thing we can do, is deliver a quality public plan where the premiums never go about 8.5 percent of your income, we also need to make sure that were prepared to fund the subsidies that make health care affordable. ... And that means we cant be afraid to talk aboutrevenue.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Just now, were getting more indications about John Bolton, and what he knew,which is one more reason why, if this is a serious trial, were going to have the witnesses and evidence.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I don't think anybody's questioning whether folks who work in Washington are important. I think the question is one of a perspective, the reality is, if your main criteria here is about time spent in Washington, and years of Washington experience, you've got your choice and it's not going to be me. I'm here to make the case for a different kind of perspective coming to Washington.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When folks ask me why is a mayor running for president whose city isn't even one of the biggest cities in the country, my answer is always: That's the point. We need more voices like that in Washington right now.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Congressman Loebsack has never let the partisan fighting in Washington get in the way of delivering on the priorities of Congressman Loebsack constituents, i am honored to have Congressman Loebsack's endorsement, and I look forward to Congressman Loebsack joining me on the trail to work together to heal the deep divisions in this country while also addressing the most urgent issues facing us.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I put something on, i got something, the doctor gave me something years ago. I put it on. Im not quite sure.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The Iran situation is a good example of not only questionable decision making, to put The Iran situation charitably, but think about, never mind what just happened, but what's about to happen.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm not here to say to my qualifications are a prerequisite, but I will say that they make me extremely aware of the consequences of decisions made in the White House Situation Room.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are serious questions about how this decision was made and whether we are prepared for the consequences.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is about issuing purity tests that you yourself can not pass.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is an example of why years in Washington is not always the same thing as judgment.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This is about issuing purity tests that you yourself cannot pass, senator, your net worth is 100 times mine.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Did it corrupt you? Of course not, these purity tests shrink the stakes of the most important election.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The message I will send is if they perpetrate a repeat of anything like Tiananmen Square when it comes to Hong Kong, they will be isolated from the free world and we will lead that isolation both diplomatically and economically.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass, your net worth is 100 times mine. We need the support from everybody who is committed to helping us beat Donald Trump.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's not only in the Middle East we see the consequences of the disappearance of U.S. leadership, it's not just the mockery at a cocktail party. ... It's the looks on the faces.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Try putting together a coalition to bring you back to office with 80% of the vote as a gay dude in Mike Pence's Indiana.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I can't help but feel that might have been directed at me.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is our only chance to defeat Donald Trump. And we shouldn't try to do it with one hand tied behind our back.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Joe Biden should be moving 60 % of Joe Biden seapower to that area of the world, joe Biden're not looking for a war, but Joe Biden've got to make clear, Joe Biden are a Pacific power, and Joe Biden are not going to back away.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Democrats inference that Donald Trump is guilty because Donald Trump does not voluntarily permit Donald Trump deputies to testify hasrankled Republicans, who assert the importance of the presumption of innocence. Joe Biden then knocked Trumps argument that less than half of Americans support Joe Biden removal from office. Hes dumbing down the presidency beyond what I even thought Joe Biden would do, Joe Biden said. We need to restore the integrity of the presidency. Democratic presidential candidates from left, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and businessman Tom Steyer stand on stage during a Democratic presidential primary debate Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, in Los Angeles. ( Associated Press) Later, Democrats largely defended Trumps breakthrough U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which White House passed hours earlier. However, candidatesrailed against Trumps economy, despite multipleindicators that the economy is doing well. The U.S. unemployment rate stands at a half-century low of 3.5 percent, backed by consistently strong job gains in recent months that have largely squelched fears of a recession that had taken hold over the summer. This economy is not working for most of us, the middle class is getting killed, Joe Biden added. Joe Biden said the economy was not.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We shouldnt try to [ defeat Trump ] with one hand tied behind our back.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It is a little strange, because I think that I broadly share a lot of the same values and goals, it's a little hard to have a conversation with them, so I don't know for sure.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
One of the first things you learn as mayor, right, is never to say something - never say something in the labor breakfast that you'd be embarrassed to have repeated at the Chamber brunch or vice versa.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What I said in that comment before I became mayor does not reflect the totality of my understanding then, and certainly now, about the obstacles that students of color face in our system today, i believe I was speaking about the need for mentorship and the need for career pathways, but the problem is to the extent that that feels like it's validating a narrative that sometimes blames the victim for the consequences of systemic racism, I understand why he [ Harriot ] was upset and I understand the perspective and largely agree.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Well, I reached out to the author, and while I, obviously, I think that some of the characterization of me personally is unfair, I do understand the concern.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I do not have the experience of ever being discriminated against because of the color of my skin, i do have the experience of feeling like a stranger in my own country, turning on the news and seeing my own rights coming up for debate.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Washington experience is not the only experience that matters, there is more than 100 years of Washington experience on this stage and where are we right now as a country ?
Found on CNN 4 years ago
As President Obama commented recently, we are not in a different reality than we were even 12 years ago, i think it's unfortunate that we have someone on this stage that is attempting to be the Democratic nominee for the president of United States who during the President Obama administration has spent four years full-time on Fox News criticizing President President Obama.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This my way or the highway idea, that either you're for kicking everybody off their private plans in four years or you're for business as usual, it's just not true.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Even as we shiver, there is joy, are you ready to go in that hall and leave no question about who has the momentum right now?
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I am asking you to picture that first day the sun comes up in this country and Donald Trump is no longer the President of the United States. A happy thought for sure, but what comes next ?
Found on CNN 4 years ago
After all you're looking at someone who as a young man growing up wondered if something deep inside of him meant that he would forever be an outsider, would never wear the uniform, never be accepted, never know love, and now you are looking at that same young man, a veteran, a mayor, happily married, asking for your vote for president of the United States.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Good question, because not everyone has been answering this question.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This reminds everybody of what they can not stand about Washington.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Well, we heard it tonight, a yes or no question that didn't get a yes or no answer, this is why people here in the Midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general and Capitol Hill in particular. Your signature, Senator, is to have a plan for everything. Except this.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is why people here in the Midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general and Capitol Hill in particular. Your signature, Senator, is to have a plan for everything. Except this.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think people really need to understand the difference in policy and the difference in vision.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I don't need lessons from you on courage, political or personal.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The slaughter going on in Syria is not a consequence of American presence, it's a consequence of a withdrawal and the betrayal by this president of American allies and American values.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Donald Trump has the blood of the Kurds on his hands, but so do many of the politicians in our country from both parties who have supported this ongoing regime change war in Syria that started in 2011, along with many in the mainstream media.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
As a policy, it's had mixed results, it's a healthy debate to have, but we've got to do something now.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Let's deal with that and not get caught in the shiny objects he's going to throw out.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We can get background checks done now. We can get red flag laws done now. We can get something done about the new sale of assault weapons now. We can not wait for these other debates to play out -- even if they're healthy debates -- to get that action done because Our Lives are on the line.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Anybody can have a water balloon; nobody can have a Predator drone, somewhere we're going to draw a line. And all we're saying ... is that we need to draw the line a lot tighter.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is a very special appearance because I'm being reunited with somebody whose story I've been sharing lately, and I'm proud to know that a campaign can help her feel like she can stand up tall and be who she is. Because that means that, long before the first vote is even cast, we are creating that kind of culture of belonging that every one of our supporters can spread, that everyone who is here can go out and spread to others, to let everybody know where you fit.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Secondly, I haven't seen any evidence of anything there anyway. And third, we have to remember that he will either find a vulnerability or make one up.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The two biggest takeaways are we are in the category of candidates who could win and that most people have not made up their mind.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When we try to play it safe, we come up short. We win when we put forward inspiring leadership often from a new generation not too connected to Washington and calling America to be more than we have ever been.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
For all my promises, I will show in great detail how I am paying for it.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think it's about time we have a toddler in the White House.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Like everyone, I find the news out of Illinois extremely disturbing, and I think it's important that it be fully investigated, i also hope it doesn't get caught up in politics at a time when women need access to health care. There's no question that what happened is disturbing. It's unacceptable. And it needs to be looked into fully.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When even this President and even( Senate Majority Leader) Mitch McConnell are at least pretending to be open to reforms, we know that we have a moment on our hands, let's make the most of it and get these things done.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Yeah, that's called the Democratic primary election, Pete, that's called an election.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If our troops can summon the courage to go overseas, the least our members of Congress should be able to do is summon the courage and take a vote on whether they ought to be there.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This reminds everybody of what they can not stand about Washington, scoring points against each other, poking at each other, yeah, that's called the Democratic primary election, Pete.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
For us, it's a great opportunity to advance, it's still 10 at a time, but now we at least know looking at that stage that the nominee will emerge from that group.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Let's talk about national security, at a time when our military leaders say that this( climate change) is one of the greatest threats to stability. There's a lot of evidence that the Syrian civil war was one of the first that was partly caused as a consequence of climate change.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't know if Donald Trump felt it necessary to pull out a sharpie and change the map, I don't know if one of his aides felt they had to do that to protect Donald Trump ego. No matter how you cut it, this is an unbelievably sad state of affairs for our country, look, when the presidency has been reduced to this, all of us are diminished because the presidency is supposed to be something we all look up to, even if we disagree with the President... what we're seeing there is literally pathetic.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Frankly, every religious and non-religious moral tradition tells us that we have some responsibility of stewardship, some responsibility for taking care of what's around us and our neighbor, eventually it gets to the point this is less and less about the planet as an abstract thing and more about specific people suffering specific harm because of what we're doing right now.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Iowa is central, it's the first chance to really prove everything we've been saying about how organized we are about the idea that what we have to say is winning with people across a range of voters and caucus-goers.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
They have no basis in our neighborhoods in peacetime in the United States of America.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We can't look like we're the party of back to normal, what we have now isn't working, but normal wasn't working either.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We know that there needs to be common sense gun safety reform in this country and we know there's a lot of things we can do at the civic level to knit back together the social fabric that is so frayed in this country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Look if it's true that if we embrace a far-left agenda, they're going to say we're a bunch of crazy socialists. If we embrace a conservative agenda you know what they're going to do? They're going to say we're a bunch of crazy socialists. So let's just stand up for the right policy and go out there and defend it.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If we embrace a far-left agenda, they're going to say we're a bunch of crazy socialists, if we embrace a conservative agenda, you know what they're going to do? They're going to say we're a bunch of crazy socialists.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If Medicare Advantage's true that if we embrace a far-left agenda, they're going to say we're a bunch of crazy socialists. If we embrace a conservative agenda, you know what they're going to do ? They're going to say we're a bunch of crazy socialists, so let's just stand up for the right policy, go out there and defend it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
No one is above the law [ and ] everybody ought to be held accountable.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Its really designed to strike fear into people at a moment when fear is something weve got way too much of in this country.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
If you're a white candidate, it is twice as important for you to be talking about racial inequality and not just describing the problem – which is fashionable in politics – but actually talking about what we're going to do about it.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
National service can help us to form connections between very different kinds of Americans, as was my experience in the military, i served alongside and trusted my life to people who held totally different political views. You shouldn't have to go to war in order to have that kind of experience, which is why I am proposing a plan to create more opportunities for national service.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is not just my problem or my city's problem, and it is certainly not just a black problem, this is an American problem, and it requires nationwide American solutions.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The presidential competitive field is stronger because Kamala Harris has been powerfully voicing her Black American experience. Her first-generation story embodies the American dream. It's long past time to end these racist, birther-style attacks.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I couldn't get it done, i could walk you through all of the things that we have done as a community, all of the steps that we took, from bias training to de-escalation, but it didn't save the life of Eric Logan. And when I look into his mother's eyes, I have to face the fact that nothing that I say will bring him back.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It threatens the well-being of every community. I am determined to bring about a day when a white person driving a vehicle in and a black person driving a vehicle, when they see a police officer approaching, feels the same thing, not of fear, but of safety. I am going to bring about that very thing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Out here, people are just getting to know me, and trust, in part, is a function of quantity time, and we are racing against time.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's going to be great. We can't wait. Starting to practice, get ready, what you're going to see is we all share pretty common and similar values in the Democratic Party.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think there's been a lot of good work. And I think there's a lot of good work yet to go, we're going to be assessing all the steps that brought us to this point, and all of the things that we haven't gotten to where they need to be. And that's going to be a major challenge that the department faces.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We've undertaken a number of efforts to reach out and get more diverse applicants to begin with. We've even mapped out where we lose applicants, but I'm not satisfied with where we are as a city in terms of the diversity of our police department. And it's something we need to keep pushing on.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Obviously I'm not pleased, look, anybody who represents the city needs to represent the city to the highest values. But there is a subset of those people, and those are the public safety officers, who actually have the name of our city stitched on their shoulders. And as such they need to be individuals who can be trusted at all times to do the right thing, especially when it comes to interactions with our most vulnerable residents.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have to follow certain processes and procedures when it comes to hiring and firing of officers, but what I'll say is that officers should be held to the highest standard, and that there's some behavior that simply can't be tolerated on the police department.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think this can be resolved by targeting any individual, it can only be resolved by making sure we have a higher level of trust in the community that's borne out by consistently positive behavior and consistently fair discipline.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Sunday is just a reminder of how much work we have yet to be done.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The effort to recruit more minority officers to South Bend Police Department and the effort to introduce body cameras have not succeeded and I accept responsibility for that, we have tried but not succeeded to increase diversity in South Bend Police Department and we need help.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It could be any of those things : A failure of an individual, a failure of the policy, a failure of the technology. We will find out, but if anybody is trying to figure out who to hold responsible, the administration bought the technology, hired the officer and wrote the policy. So, at the end of the day, I'm responsible.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I promise you that every piece of input will be taken seriously, so you can decided whether or not you believe in me, but I believe in this city. I believe in you.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I am thankful to be with you. I am with you after a challenging week back home, i have been off the campaign trail helping my community move through a tragic shooting of a resident of our community by a police officer.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm not asking for your vote, i will promise that there will be a review to make sure that there is no racism on this department.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In the wake of Sunday's shooting, we must acknowledge the hurt and honor the humanity of all involved in this loss of life, we also have a responsibility to take every step that can promote transparency and fairness, both in dealing with the recent incident and looking towards the future.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I know that whenever an incident like this happens, there is tremendous hurt that can come about. That the city will be hurting, and we will be striving to reach out to community members, to community leaders, to keep the channels of communication open, even as we wait for more facts to come in.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When we were trying to implement body cameras and we're dealing with all of the problems, it's a complicated thing to try to do, it sounds easy, but you have all of these questions about how to maintain the footage and legal policies, and it really helped that I could send my police chief to the Obama White House for the 21st-century task force on policing and get help.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The relationship between the police officers who are sworn to keep this community safe and everybody who lives here is among the most important things we have as a city, so when an incident like this happens, I want to make sure it's understood...that we care.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
A lot of it is because I am new on the scene and I am not Pete Buttigieg from a community of color.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It was especially important early on, when we were still trying to get known, i think it helped us get that first look. And then, thankfully, when people take that first look, they like what they see and then we were able to broaden our base.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's now a reality that there's an out gay candidate, who's a Democrat, who may become president, you may see a greater level of legitimacy among Democratic voters because of that.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're not going to win by playing it safe or promising a return to normal. We are where we are because normal broke.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Don't listen to anybody in either party who says we can just go back to what we were doing, we know that the struggle is not over, not even close. At a time like today when you can still be legally fired in so many parts of this country because of who you are or who you love, we have work to do.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We know that the struggle is not over, not even close. At a time like today when you can still be legally fired in so many parts of this country because of who you are or who you love, we have work to do.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We in the LGBTQ community know when we hear phrases like 'Make America Great Again' that that American past was never quite as great as advertised.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The pace of change has been extraordinary, i think those of us within the LGBTQ community are perhaps among the most amazed. I began my career at a time when you can either be out or you could have a career in politics. You couldn't have both.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I was 16 years old and I saw stories on a little TV on my dresser in South Bend, terrible news from a conservative state, maybe not that different than my own state. And the effect was that I immediately understood that hate was deadly, i suppose that means that I understood that I lived in a country where you could lose your life for being gay before I understood that I was gay. And maybe that has got something to do with why it took me a little longer.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The reason that we can stand up tall and say that's not true, that having served honorably in the military, couldn't be more different than being a war criminal is because if we ever did anything that was wrong the United States under the Uniform Code of Military Justice would have held us accountable, and so when the President joins in with this idea, that it's just natural, that if you serve in conflict, that you're going to wind up murdering somebody, he is eroding the integrity of the military, and insulting the Constitution.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I felt that I was watching Americans exercise a right that I had put my life on the line to defend, the point of defending free speech is not that you expect to be perfectly aligned with every speech that is protected.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I trust women to draw the line, that decision [to have an abortion] is not going to be made any better, medically or morally, because the government is dictating how that decision should be made.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
You dont blow a hole in the budget with an unnecessary and unaffordable tax cut for the very wealthiest.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Theres a lot of us running for president on the Democratic side, but I think its safe to say Im not like the others.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I don't think that you are free in this country if your reproductive health can be criminalized by government, to see in Alabama that if someone is raped and California Sen. Kamala Harris seeks an abortion, the doctor who treats California Sen. Kamala Harris will be penalized with a longer prison term than California Sen. Kamala Harris rapist makes me question whether the discussion about freedom in this country has gone off the rails.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It helps me demonstrate the difference between how I'm oriented and how the current President is, we responded to the country's call to serve in very different ways.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I might have dragged my feet on it forever if I hadn't had that experience in Iowa and just realizing that some communities were almost emptying out their youth in the military and some were barely serving at all, and I wanted to be on the right side of that gap.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Look, it's not like I killed( Osama) Bin Laden, right ? i don't want to overstate what my role was, but it certainly is something that was dangerous.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There had to be at least two people with rifles in the vehicle and I was one of those in my unit who was rifle qualified, it often fell to me to make sure that the vehicle was either being driven or was being guarded properly.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It was the reflecting that I did while I was overseas, i think it did kind of push me over the edge when I could've found more excuses to just take my time on coming out.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
My colleagues, I know you. I know you are good and decent people, let conscience guide us to the right and please support this bill.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If I'm Pete Buttigieg, I am going to have more trust automatically with a candidate who is a candidate of color, and some candidates, I'm going to feel like I know because I've observed them over 10, 20 or 30 years, to have somebody who comes on the scene who is not a candidate of color and who has also not been a national figure for years, it means we've got to do in a matter of months, that same kind of trust building and relationship building work.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We're hoping that both public relationships that we're building and the ones that we're privately building up will yield dividends over time as we build or organization.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Oh, I'm sure Sexual Assault by 21-Year-Old's not the first time somebody's going to make something up about me, sexual Assault by 21-Year-Old's not going to throw us. Big League Politics can be ugly sometimes, but you have to face that when you're in presidential politics.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'm not going around saying we've fixed every problem we've got, but I'm proud of what we have done together, and I think it's a very powerful story.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The only way that we can cultivate what makes America great is to look to the future and not be afraid of it.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I just thought these neighborhoods are never going to be as safe as we want them to be unless we do something and act fast, the number-one complaint that we heard, especially from low - income and minority homeowners in the neighborhoods that we addressed, was what took you so long ?'.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
New Hampshire can be challenging to be a person of faith who's also part of the LGBTQ community and yet, to me, the core of faith is regard for one another, and part of God's love is experienced, according to my faith tradition, is in the way that we support one another and, in particular, support the least among us.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There is a myth being sold to industrial and rural communities.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'm under no illusion that looking good in April of'19 means that we're where we need to be in order to win this thing.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is a great example of how we have come to accept the unacceptable in this country, this is not an exotic thing that you got to run the labor of models to score the potential implications. This is something that people in pretty much every developed country have, except us.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I recognize the audacity of doing this as a Midwestern millennial mayor, more than a little bold —at age 37 — to seek the highest office in the land.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I take that long view because I have to, i come from that generation that grew up with school shootings as the norm, the generation that produced the bulk of the troops in the post-9/11 conflicts, the generation that is going to be on the business end of climate change for as long as we live.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is time to walk away from the politics of the past and toward something totally different.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Our marriage exists by the grace of a single vote on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The horror show in Washington is mesmerizing, all-consuming, but starting today, we are going to change the channel.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
On one hand, I believe in conviction politics. I think you need to forcefully defend your values and explain why you believe in the things you believe in, but one reason that you'll hear me not being too doctrinaire about some of these policy groups is an awareness that the reality in government is you're going to be adjusting the finer points of the policy, anyway.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is a city which is still a low-income city and one with a lot of inequality. So if you're on the west side, and I'm proud of everything we've done for the west side, but you're still in a low-income neighborhood, so anything that you see happening downtown could be perceived as something that you wish were coming to you.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The challenge with any policy, especially a controversial one, is you need to know when to stick to your guns when you really believe in something and get it done. But you also need to acknowledge, from the get-go, that you might be wrong.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'm not critical of his faith ; I'm critical of bad policies, i don't have a problem with religion -- I'm religious too. I have a problem with religion being used as a justification to harm people and especially in the LGBTQ community.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If me being gay was a choice, it was made far, far above my pay grade ... Thats the thing that I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand that if you got a problem with who I am your problem is not with me, your quarrel sir, is with my creator.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man. And yes, Mr. Vice President, it has moved me closer to God, that's the thing I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand : That if you have a problem with who I am, your quarrel is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I really could tell on our first date when we were walking the streets of South Bend, we went to see a South Bend Cubs game, the way he interacts with people, the way he cares about people, that call to service, he is consistently staying up late and thinking and talking to himself and thinking about' how can I change the world, how can I make it a better place ?'.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
He's got this really quick wit, you can tell if you follow him on Twitter, you'll see what I mean.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The thing I love about him, and maybe the thing you love about him, too, is he is the same person whether we are at home folding laundry together, or if he's in front of a room like this, full of supporters. He's the exact same person.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
At that time, I was talking about a lot of issues around racial reconciliation in our community. What I did not understand at that time was that phrase ... was coming to be viewed as a sort of counter slogan to Black Lives Matter, since learning about how that phrase was being used to push back on that activism, I've stopped using it in that context.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Since learning about how that phrase was being used to push back on that activism, I've stopped using it in that context.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We need to take both those things seriously, for the simple and profound reason that all lives matter.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Being a mayor of a city of any size, especially in the strong mayor system we have in my community where there's no one else to call when there's an emergency or major policy issue, is arguably the best kind of preparation you can have.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If [ President Donald Trump ] is saying the system is rigged — and the way he's saying it is twisted and not really true, but there's a kernel of truth in there — and we look like we're the ones saying,' oh no, the system is perfectly fine,' then we've got a problem, the problem is normal wasn't working for a lot of people.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There's this intangible energy you can just feel when I walk into a room.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We spent, I think, way too much time on our side talking about Hillary Clinton in particular.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
To me there's two things that can happen when you are conscious of your identity, one is it turns into all these ways we separate ourselves from each other, and it just turns into one big, you don't know me. But the other way we can do it is we can say, OK I've got this experience, you've got this experience, what can we talk about that brings us together ?
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think anybody in this process needs to demonstrate how they will represent people of any faith, people of no faith, but I also think the time has come to reclaim faith as a theme, the idea that the only way a religious person could enter politics is through the prism of the religious right, I just dont think that makes sense.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Theres something happening right now, that calls for something completely different than what weve been seeing.Generationally different, regionally different, somebody with a different life story and a different background, and to the surprise of many, includingmyself, this moment could be the only moment over the last 100 years or the next 100 years, when its appropriate for someone like me to be in this conversation.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think there will be a role for the private sector, but a very different one than what we have in the corporate system today.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The presidents promise is to turn back the clock, that we can somehow just go back to the 1950s, and its just not true.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
My understanding of scripture is that its about protecting the stranger and the prisoner and the poor person and that idea, thats what I get in the gospel when Im at church and his has a lot more to do with sexuality ... and a certain view of rectitude.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
If you grew up during that Cold War period, then you saw a time in politics when the word socialism could be used to end an argument, today, I think a word like that is the beginning of a debate, not the end of a debate.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
My generation is the generation that experienced school shootings beginning when I was in high school, the generation that fought in the post-9/11 wars, the first generation to have to deal with the reality of climate change, and the first generation not to be better off than our parents materially - if nothing changes, only a forward focus - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - can change our national politics and our nation's future.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There's a new generation of voices emerging in our country, walking away from the politics of the past and ready to deliver on our priorities. There is no' again' in the real world ; that's not a bad thing, we are ready for a fresh start.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The only way to know is to get out there, i will say I got re-elected with 80 % of the vote after I had come out while Mike Pence was governor of Indiana. I don't think these things decide your fate.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
One of the things that every person should think about in the run-up to 2020, especially because there are so many people, is that it is not only the outcome, but it is the conduct of campaigns that will make an impact on political life in our country, the world is changing, but it is not changing on its own. So, if by bringing forward good ideas I can be part of chipping away at that, that is one more reason to give this a look.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think any candidate that is not already very famous probably needs to make some kind of move in January.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Barack Obama came in 2016 to collect credit for the unemployment rate going from 20 % to 4 %. And now President Donald Trump wants to come collect credit for it going from 4 % to 3 %.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think one of the big problems in Democratic politics is an ideology that's organized completely around Republican politics and ideology, and the only way we take somebody's measure is to evaluate how vigorously they oppose or how closely they imitate Republican policies.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
(Trump) had this message about fairness and unfairness that should be the bread-and-butter of the Democratic Party.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
The DNC is always vulnerable to this gravitational force that makes it treat the presidency like it's the only office that matters.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
My hope is that (Perez) will direct the party toward working from the bottom up.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
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