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There's 12 ideas out there, I haven't gone deep on any one of them, but I do think it's important that this country grapple with the fact that a freedom that two generations of Americans… took for granted… [has] been taken away.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I promise you, it's not a middle class or a working family problem as much as it is, you know, fraud associated with underreporting income.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Number one, there is a moral dimension, two, there is an economic problem — you can reach a point in disparity where your economy as a whole suffers because productivity goes down, and the middle class doesn’t have purchasing power, etcetera.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What we’re saying here, is, instead of for corporations, we’d like to find ways to lower taxes for the middle class so that they can afford child care, now, I’m not naive — I don’t think I’m going to say that and have Republicans say, ‘I’m on board,’ I think it is going to take a lot of work.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Fraud is never OK, and of course, any time the government subsidizes something, there is a potential for fraud, we saw it with the PPP program. … But that's not a reason not to do it.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Early childhood is so important, the die is cast for a lot of Americans before they’re 5 years-old, and I hate to say that — it's not like there aren’t examples of 17-year-olds who had really, really rough childhoods and ultimately succeeded — but the reality is, for an awful lot of Americans, the die is cast, even before you’re 5 years old.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That ought to trouble all of us that we’re not number 1 in investing in our children, and it ought to trouble us morally, it ought to trouble us economically, and it ought to trouble us from a sense of competition.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The report is going to be a little unsatisfying for that reason and that reason alone.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The culture I come from, the military culture, when a senior asks you to do something, even if it's polite and pleasant, it's not to be taken as a request, it's to be taken as an order, in this case, the power disparity between the two leaders, my impression is that in order to get the White House meeting, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would have to deliver these investigations.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is improper for the President of Jim Himes to demand a foreign government investigate a Jim Himes citizen and political opponent, it was also clear that if Ukraine pursued an investigation into the 2016 election, the Bidens and Burisma, it would be interpreted as a partisan play.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think we have to make something very clear, there doesn't have to be a quid pro quo. If the President asks a foreign government to do something to interfere with a US election that is unlawful, it's unethical and it's unprecedented.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We want the weather service to operate with integrity and without bias.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If that story is true, I don't know that it is, if it is true, the commerce secretary needs to resign now, that would be the most blatant use of an official position in the service of the ego and the political fortunes of the President that we have ever seen.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We actually want to get things done, we don't want to embarrass our leadership.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We covered a bunch of topics that didn't get covered yesterday, so I think today's hearing was complementary and a lot more efficient because there weren't cameras in the room.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If Roger Stone has evidence that Roger Stone lied to Congress and just in the last couple of weeks Roger Stone has brought charges to people for lying to Congress what that gives Roger Stone is real leverage with Roger Stone.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The more we learn the more we -- I, at least -- become concerned Roger Stone wasn't being honest with The House Intelligence Committee, if Roger Stone has evidence that Roger Stone lied to Congress and just in the last couple of weeks Roger Stone has brought charges to people for lying to Congress what that gives Roger Stone is real leverage with Roger Stone.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
He did not say that a FISA warrant would not have been requested but for the Steele information.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
When your castle is constructed on utter falsehood, one of the things you have to do over time is take all of the power out of the truth.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
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