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He was a dedicated legislator who was always guided by his devotion to bipartisanship and improving people’s lives, his work to advance the Americans with Disabilities Act and prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities changed millions of lives for the better and made our nation stronger.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Our country faces a serious monopoly problem, we need antitrust enforcers who can get the job done, and leaders with the experience, legal skill, and courage to take on some of the most powerful companies the world has ever seen. Over the past year, Assistant Attorney General Kanter has consistently demonstrated these qualities.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
At a moment of political division in Washington, we instead chose to travel to Ukraine in unity, the U.S. administration – from the Secretary of State to the President himself – has pledged to help this country. Our message is that there will be consequences if Vladimir Putin chooses to violate the sanctity of this democracy.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What I don't want to get lost here is why we were there, we were there to honor Bob Dole and his memory. Bob Dole was all about consensus, bringing people together. And let's not forget that.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As Congress works to move forward a historic investment in broadband infrastructure, strong leadership at Federal Communications Commission is essential to deliver on the connectivity goals our 21-century economy demands, with more than two decades of experience at the Federal Communications Commission and the Senate Committee on Commerce, I am confident that both Jessica Rosenworcel and Gigi Sohn have the expertise needed to close the digital divide and strengthen our nation for generations to come.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
After a number of other tests, I returned to Mayo and had a lumpectomy on the right breast which involved the removal of the cancer, in May, I completed a course of radiation treatment, and after additional follow-up visits, it was determined in August that the treatment went well.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s easy to put off health screenings, just like I did. But I hope my experience is a reminder for everyone of the value of routine health checkups, exams, and follow-through.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Of course this has been scary at times, since cancer is the word all of us fear.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This decision that they made with the state of Texas is unbelievable, here you have them this year, This Week, basically telling women in Texas that 85 % of them seeking abortion services can not exercise their constitutional rights. ... And basically greenlighted a law that is blatantly against Roe v. Wade.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I do not believe an archaic rule should be used to allow us to put our heads in the sand -- to use Justice( Sonia) Sotomayor's words -- to put our heads in the sand and not take action on the important issues.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I believe, if he is seriously considering retirement -- and he has said he would do it based on not only his own health, but also the future of the court -- if this decision doesn't cry out for that, I don't -- I don't know what does.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This decision that they made with the state of Texas is unbelievable.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Social media has greatly contributed to this misinformation. There's no doubt, when we have a public health crisis and people are dying every day, enough is enough. These are the richest companies in the world. ... There's absolutely no reason they shouldn't be able to monitor this better and take this crap off of their platforms that are basically telling people,' Oh, hey, there's problems,' when we know science proves there isn't.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This fight has just begun, that's why, as chairwoman of Senate Rules Committee, I am announcing a series of hearings on the urgent need to pass critical voting, campaign finance, and ethics reforms, including a field hearing in Georgia to hear testimony on the recently enacted legislation to restrict voting in the state.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
That's a different thing than with the( outside) commission would be, which is just longer-term systemic issues that led to this and also longer-term systemic changes.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The point is that we listened to the people on both sides of the aisle and made changes based on those discussions, now I urge my Republican colleagues to recognize the work we've done and join us.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
At a time when the right to vote is under attack and special interests and dark money are drowning out the voices of the American people, we need to take action.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Walter Mondale taught me that leadership isn’t all about giving soaring speeches and punchy sound bites – but actually getting things done for people, he always saw his responsibility as an elected leader as bigger than the immediate challenge at any given moment. His broader mission was helping to prepare a new generation of leaders for the next big decision that needed to be made.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Efforts have been made to suppress the vote. Efforts have been made to introduce bills that would suppress the vote, a dozen states including Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania, have introduced legislation to limit access to vote by mail.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
These are real threats to our democracy and the For The People Act takes them head on in a common sense way.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer can not have one seat of rules for a Democratic President and another set of rules for Republicans.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have to have such a momentous session next year, we're going have to do more on the pandemic. All of these things like minimum wage, climate change, that have been sitting around with no action for years and so I've always said during the presidential campaign that we should consider it but it should be leverage.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I truly believe, as I actually told the vice president last night when I called him, that I think this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket, and there is so many incredibly qualified women.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is a historic moment, and America must seize on this moment.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Joe Biden was Joe Biden. Joe Biden's going to make the best decision for Joe Biden, for our country, for the pandemic.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're trying to make the elections safe, that's all we're doing.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is something that so many Americans know right now. They can't go visit their loved ones. They're relying on these incredible health care providers, that they only get to talk to them over the phone.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
He has coronavirus and has been in the hospital for pneumonia and low oxygen, he took a good turn, was just released and is now recovering at home.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'll be the first to say that the first four contests haven't gone exactly as I'd hoped, my campaign is built for the long haul and we are looking forward to these big contests.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think I would make a better president than Bernie Sanders. And the reason for that is that getting a progressive agenda enacted is going to be really hard, i dug in, I did the work, and then Bernie's team trashed me.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
They're counting the votes, but as usual, I think we have exceeded expectations, i always note that a lot of people didn't even think that I would still be standing at this point.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're already running ads in Super Tuesday states, we're headed to South Carolina for the debate and there we go.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think having a president that maybe is humble and is able to admit that here... wouldn't be a bad thing, you're on the committee that oversees border security.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Amy Klobuchar have not been in the arena doing that work. Amy Klobuchar've memorized a bunch of talking points, you know, maybe leading a diverse city that was facing ruin doesn't sound like the arena to you.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That official that you are referring to was supported by about half the Democrats, including some in this room. And I will say this : He was highly recommended by the Obama officials.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Mayor Buttigieg really has a slogan that was thought up by Mayor Buttigieg consultants to paper over a thin version of a plan that would leave millions of people unable to afford their health care. It's not a plan. It's a PowerPoint, and Amy's plan is even less. It's like Insert Plan,' Insert Plan Here.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I wish everyone was as perfect as you, Pete, youve memorized a bunch of talking points.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I must say I take personal offense, since Post-It notes were invented in my state.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We need to improve the Affordable Care Act, not blow it up.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
He just can't hide behind the airwaves, he has to answer questions and of course, I think he should be on that debate stage.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
My heart is full tonight, while there are still ballots left to count, we have beaten the odds every step of the way, we have done it on the merits, we have done it with ideas, and we have done it with hard work.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I do not have to biggest name up on this stage, I don't have the biggest bank account. I'm not a political newcomer with no record, but I have a record of fighting for people, i'm asking you to believe that someone who totally believes in America can win this, because if you are tired of the extremes in our politics and the noise and the nonsense, you have a home with me.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Tonight is about grit, and my story, like so many of yours, is one of resilience, i announced my candidacy in the middle of a Minnesota blizzard. And there were a lot of people that predicted I wouldn't even get through that speech, but not the people of my state, and not the people of New Hampshire. Except, then they predicted that we wouldn't make it through the summer. We did. Then they predicted we wouldn't make it to the debates and Man, were we at the debate in New Hampshire.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In my case, it was elected to the Amy Klobuchar Senate ; no woman had ever done it before, but I came back. I defied expectations and I won. ... And tonight in New Hampshire, as everyone had counted us out, even a week ago -- thank you, pundits -- I came back, and we delivered.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Donald Trump's worst nightmare is a candidate who will bring people in from the middle, i think we need someone to head up this ticket that actually brings people with her instead of shutting them out.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It is easy to go after Washington, because that's a popular thing to do.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I will tell you this, there is a complete lack of empathy in this guy in the White House right now and I will bring back to you, if you have trouble stretching your paycheck to pay for that rent, I know you and I will fight for you. If you have trouble deciding if youre going to pay for your child care or your long-term care, I know you and I will fight for you. I do not have the biggest name up on this stage, I dont have the biggest bank account, Im not a political newcomer with no record, but I have a record of fighting for people.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We know there are delays, but we know one thing -- we are punching above our weight !
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm asking you take this over the goal line for me, i want you to score a touch down. ...OK, that's enough.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think that instead of just putting your money out there, he's actually got to be on the stage and be able to go back and forth so that voters can evaluate him.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
As you know, I would be here every day if I could, but I have a constitutional obligation to fulfill my constitutional duty as a juror.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In my first 100 days I have 137 things that I found out you can do without Congress - a president can do herself - that are legal, but I will tell you this, in the first 100 seconds I will fire Betsy DeVos.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Closely monitoring what is happening in Iraq. We must do all we can to protect our servicemembers and Americans at risk.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Paul Wellstone had taken a courageous vote against the Iraq war, which was my position as well, it was not a good thing to do.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Did Qasem Soleimani think about what the repercussions of what this is going to mean ?
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think [ Iowa caucus-goers are ] going to hold it against you if my husband is standing here that last week and I'm here on Skype on some screen. I mean that's what we're going to have to do, because this is too important.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I like to joke that 59 is the new 37 to Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If President Trump thinks he should not be impeached, he should be not scared to put forward his own witnesses, the president is not king in America. The law is king.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
They have made it harder for African-Americans to vote, as one court said,' discriminated with surgical precision.'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Maybe we're humble, and maybe with the guy in the White House right now, maybe we need a little humbleness, instead of the loudest voice or the biggest bank account heading up the ticket.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I would ask for forgiveness any time any of Elizabeth Warren get mad at me. I can be blunt.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
He has stood with tyrants over free leaders, he does it all the time.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We don't seek conflict with China or Russia, but we are also not going to allow them to break up the international system that has enabled peace, stability, and prosperity.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We don't want to prevent China from growing and succeeding, but we do want to prevent it from doing so at the expense of others, including Americans.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's not just about firing up our base. It's about winning people over.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Listen, we got to get money out of politics, i mean, I got to raise a ton of money to be competitive.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I see this as one more example where how come when you have someone who is already a multimillionaire in the White House do you think that the people in this country are going to go,' Oh, we need someone wealthier,'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Otherwise we could play a game called 'Name your favorite woman president,'.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'm not going to go for things just because they sound good on a bumper sticker and then throw in a free car.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Women are held to a higher standard, we have to work harder and that is a fact.... If you think a woman can't beat Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi does it every day.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Im not going to go for things just because they sound good on a bumper sticker and then throw in a free car.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I have made it very clear that this is impeachable conduct. ... I just believe our jurors is to look at each count and make a decision.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Plenty of people that will be able to fill in for me, including my husband, i have a constitutional duty, but I can do two things at once.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think simply because you have different ideas doesn't mean you're fighting for regular people.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'd guess neither of them wants to alienate Biden supporters.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I just think I have a better way, and I think it's also important that she keeps not telling us how she's going to pay for them, and, as I said, someone's going to get that invoice, and she needs to tell us who it is.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think we owe it to the American people to tell them where to send the invoice, the difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something you can actually get done.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What if Donald Trump was standing up here on the debate stage with me? You know what I would say to him? I said, you said you wanted to do this in your race for president. You actually said that you wanted to put women in jail, then you tried to dial it back, and you said you wanted to put doctors in jail. That is exactly what the Alabama law is. It put doctors in jail for 99 years.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something that you can actually get done, at least Bernie is being honest here and saying how he's going to pay for this -- and that taxes are going to go up.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think we know this makes no sense at all. We know this isn't the right thing to do.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Someone suggested maybe I should tie Amy Klobuchar to a railroad track and then record this video and say' I won't move until I get all your donations,' in to a million dollars, but I'm not going to do that because I give it to you straight.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
A patchwork of voluntary measures from tech companies isn't sufficient — we need to pass the Honest Ads Act.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I am someone who tells the truth, I don't make promises I can't keep.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Quite frankly the antitrust investigation into these automakers appears to have less to do with protecting competition than with intimidating parties that don't fall into line with the Trump administration's plan to relax emissions standards.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I strongly opposed him, based on his views on executive power, which will continue to haunt our country, as well as how he behaved, including the allegations that we are hearing more about today.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't think that you can look at impeachment hearings without getting the documents -- the House would have to get the documents -- and Attorney General is shielding documents.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
While Bernie wrote the bill, I read the bill, and on page 8 -- on page 8 of the bill, it says that we will no longer have private insurance as we know it. And that means that 149 million Americans will no longer be able to have their current insurance.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Big technology companies have become some of the most powerful organizations in the world. They face little competition and there are numerous examples of the companies purchasing start-up competitors in various lines of business.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Do something, Senator McConnell. America is done waiting for you.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There's mental illness&hate throughout world, but U.S. stands alone w/high rate of gun violence.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Inaction is unacceptable. No more talk. The time for passing legislation is now. I'm ready to go back tomorrow.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Marianne Williamson're going to hear a lot of promises up here, but I'm going will tell Marianne Williamson this, yes, I have bold ideas but they are grounded in reality. And, yes, I will make some simple promises. I can win this. I'm from the Midwest. And I have won every race, every place, every time.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
They're moderate Republicans and we need to win them to win the election.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It looked like a bad deal then, and it looks like a bad deal today, despite the parties' promises and this proposed consent decree.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I am just simply concerned about kicking half of America off of their health insurance in four years, which is exactly what this bill says.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There are three women up here who have fought pretty hard for a woman's right to choose.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You can't take things of value from a foreign country and use them in your campaign. It is illegal. And President Donald Trump is actually putting President Donald Trump out there, and sending out the signals, once again, just like President Donald Trump did in 2016, about dirt on Hillary Clinton, it means that President Donald Trump is engaging in this same kind of behavior.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's critical that we and the American people have a good sense of what the agencies are actually doing to protect competition in this important part of our economy.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Every so often I get sad about the numbers for some of the women -- including everyone, our combined numbers and what they are -- but I think it has been improving and I think people are taking us seriously and I think the debates are going to be a really good chance for the woman to show their stuff, could we be running with less experience than we had ?
Found on CNN 5 years ago
That's the kind of chaos he likes, and I just think that's not how Amy Klobuchar embark on international diplomacy with one of our best allies. U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, another Democratic presidential hopeful, had a similar criticism.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
John McCain kept reciting to me names of dictators during that speech because John McCain knew more than any of us what we were facing as a nation, John McCain understood it, john McCain knew because John McCain knew this man more than any of us did.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Of course I will, i think my track record shows that. I love working in the Senate. I love representing Minnesota.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
You do it by actually bringing in drugs from less expensive countries like Canada that are safe, because I can see Canada from my porch in Minnesota, so I kind of like that.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Every single time I have run, I have won every single congressional district in my state, including Michele Bachmann's, OK ?
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Lucy Flores ' said we need to listen to women, and Lucy Flores ' is right. We need to listen to women. The bottom line here is that women deserve the respect and the opportunity to share these stories, and it takes tremendous courage to do so, and that's not easy, what she just did on TV.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We're not going to see( continued success) if we spend our whole time bemoaning the fact that he's there, he's there. And we have to present an alternative.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The Green New Deal ? I see it as aspirational. I see it as a jump-start.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I'm asking you to join us on this campaign. It's a homegrown one, i don't have a political machine. I don't come from money. But what I do have is this : I have grit.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The Mississippi River, all our rivers connect us, to one another. To our shared story, for that is how this country was founded, with patriots who saw more that united them than divided them.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
On an island in the middle of the mighty Mississippi River, in our nation's heartland, at a time when we must heal the heart of our democracy and renew our commitment to the common good, I stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron ore miner, the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman, the first woman elected to the United States Senate from the state of Minnesota, to announce my candidacy for president of the United States.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
He wasn't moving us forward and rising to the challenges of the day.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I was really stunned by how he acted at that hearing, one idea here is that he simply was drinking more than he was saying over this time period, and that he didn't remember what happened so I was just simply trying to get at that.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
With only 76 days before the election, with cyberattacks from Russia and other countries and criminal enterprises being revealed every day, with no national requirement for critical security protocols such as audits or backup paper ballots for our nation's election infrastructure, we must take action before the next election, to do nothing before the next election would be irresponsible.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We can not go back to a time when women are made criminals for making a choice about what to do with their own bodies. We can not go back to a time when they can't make a decision about their own contraceptives, when you look at what's happening in this country, people want to move forward.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I think what has to change are the policies, and the people that are making these policies are making horrendous decisions like separating kids from their parents, we are always going to need immigration enforcement. ... So to me, the issue is what are those policies, and please let's get comprehensive immigration reform, something I've strongly supported for years.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We're here today because we're outraged by what some pharmaceutical companies have been doing with pricing for important medications that affect all generations.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Trevor has been seizure-free since his fourth injection, and that's why I brought him with me today.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Competition among the four largest cell phone carriers has led to lower prices, better service and more innovation. That's why it's critically important that we hold a hearing to ask serious questions about how this consolidation could affect American consumers.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We had positive response on our side, it would be great if we could get this done before the Memorial( Day week-long) break.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We're not going to see [ continued success ] if we spend our whole time bemoaning the fact that he's there, he's there. And we have to present an alternative.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
As I've always told Al Franken, Al Franken's had two acts and Al Franken's still going to have a third one, what Al Franken did was wrong and Al Franken has said that. ... I think there's other people that will somehow atone for their sins. We may not see them in politics again but they'll find another place to be effective and make a difference.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
They keep saying, ‘Trust us, we can take care of our own people and our own website,’? well, that’s not true. ... That’s the attitude that got them in trouble.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I think we have an obligation to the American people to do our job regardless of who is related to who at a company, and I have never seen Senator Manchin intervene himself in any of these cases involving this company. I’ve never seen that happen. I know him very well.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The monarch butterfly is the most iconic butterfly in North America, with the butterfly rapidly disappearing, I am pleased to see The Fish and The Fish taking positive steps to reverse The Fish decline.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
To criminally prosecute a child not old enough to go to the school prom makes no sense, you get much more cooperation from a victim if you give them a safe harbor, a place to live, job training, an education.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we lose this concept of having political parties, where people can gather and have a platform and join together, we really lose what's been at the core of democracy, what's missing of course if when people get there and get elected is their ability to put that aside some and work together.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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