Quotes by Dick Durbin - Page 3

Our soldiers deserve better. They need a plan for success. They need an administration that is honest about the costs of war, human and otherwise, and they need full accountability and oversight on Capitol Hill.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Accountability
Capitol
Capitol Hill
Deserve
Oversight
Soldiers
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We are dealing with the question of the 11 million people paying their taxes, having a path to legalization and, then, ultimately, to citizenship. Tough issues but we are coming together and I think we can do it.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Issues
People
Thinking
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Personally, I would counsel any woman who asked, in my family, to do her best to carry the child full term, and I'd try to help. But I do believe the government should not prohibit a woman from making that decision.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Decision
Term
Asked
Carry
Counsel
Personally
Prohibit
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When we engage in the critical decisions about our nation's future budgets, I want progressive voices at the table to argue that we must protect the most vulnerable in our society and demand fairness in budget cuts.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Budget Cuts
Demand
Fairness
Progressive
Vulnerable
Argue
Budget
Cuts
Engage
Voices
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Illinois Senator Paul Simon, once said "The test for a Supreme Court nominee is not where he stands on any one specific issue. The test is this: Will you use your power on the court to restrict freedom or expand it?"
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Illinois
Issues
Use
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We want to make certain that every American who stood in silent tribute to Rosa Parks hopes that the Sepreme Court Judge will break silence and speak out clearly for the civil rights that define our unity as a nation.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Court Judges
Rights
Speaks Out
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We have a long way to go, some tough issues ahead of us, and I'm sure there will be some obstacles in the path ... But the good faith effort that's being put into this absolutely is encouraging to me and gives me hope.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Giving
Issues
Long
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In July of 2006, I visited the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It was important for me to see Guantanamo firsthand and to meet the military personnel who are doing such a great job for our country.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Cuba
Detention
Facility
Great Job
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay
July
Military
Military Personnel
Personnel
Great Me Important
Bay
Firsthand
Great Me Country
Meet
Visited
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I'm disappointed in Burger King's decision to renounce their American citizenship. I call on companies currently mulling this tax dodge to reconsider and on Congress to protect U.S. taxpayers from more of these schemes.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Disappointed
Dodge
Renounce
Schemes
Taxpayers
Currently
Burger
Reconsider
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The for-profit college industry is clearly the single-heaviest subsidized business in America. More than any defense contractor or any farm operation... So many of them are a horrible waste of students' time and of taxpayer dollars.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Contractor
Defense
Horrible
Waste
Farm
Operation
Subsidized
Taxpayer
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In the fast-changing, information-filled world of the Internet, you never know what you might find. Maybe you'll discover a great price on an airline ticket, or maybe you'll come across that quote you've been racking your brain for.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Airline
Discover
Quote
Ticket
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Credit card companies and banks usually aren't shy when they're trying to sell you something. Heck, Wells Fargo didn't even bother to ask consumers before signing them up for as many as two million checking and credit card accounts.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Accounts
Bother
Consumers
Credit Card
Fargo
Shy
Signing
Banks
Card
Checking
Heck
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I think we learned a lesson and paid a bitter price when we put troops on the ground on a long-term basis in Iraq and Afghanistan. Let us support a homegrown, indigenous, and locally inspired effort to bring stability to the region.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Afghanistan
Bitter
Effort
Homegrown
Indigenous
Long Term
Paid
Stability
Support
Troops
Basis
Bring
Lesson
Locally
Price
Region
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I stood respectfully as Ronald Reagan was sworn in to his second term though I disagreed with him on many issues. I stood as well for the inauguration of George W. Bush's second term though I thought his war in Iraq was a tragic mistake.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Inauguration
Tragic
George W
Reagan
Respectfully
Second Term
Stood
Sworn
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Every day seems to bring news about another for-profit college scam. Hundreds of thousands of students have been deceived, misled, and harassed into enrolling at these schools where they end up with a mountain of debt and a worthless degree.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Debt
Misled
Mountain
Worthless
Scam
Harassed
Day News Every Day
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
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When I hear my friend John Boehner say that we have the best health care in the world, I don't dispute it for a moment. If I were sick, this is the country I want to be in, with these doctors, these hospitals, and these medical professionals.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Health Care
Hospitals
Dispute
My Friend
Professionals
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I've known Al Franken for over 20 years. He is my friend. He was on the floor of the Senate announcing his resignation. I sat just a few feet away from him. He said it was the worst day in his political life. It was a somber feeling. It was a reality.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Announcing
Political Life
Reality
Resignation
Said
Sat
Senate
Somber
Worst
Al
Friend
Feeling
Few
Floor
My Friend
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The courage of federal Judge Frank Johnson is well-known.He was the one that gave the legal authority for the right to march from Selma to Montgomery, and he suffered dearly for it. He was ostracized and rejected. His life was threatened as a result of it.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Judging
March
Well Known
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Having billions of dollars immediately available to plug budget holes without raising taxes is very appealing. And to the delight of Wall Street investors, state and local governments often fail to ask the important questions or consider the long-term impact.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Available
Billions
Delight
Holes
Important Questions
Investors
Long Term
Raising Taxes
Taxes
Appealing
Billions Of Dollars
Budget
Governments
Local Governments
Plug
Raising
Wall Street
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Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Believe
Dedicated
Helping
Helping Others
Mean
One Word
Our Lives
Suggesting
Seat
Democrats
Godless
Platform
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Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of the press, I believe we must define a journalist and the constitutional and statutory protections those journalists should receive.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Free Speech
Journalist
Protected
Freedom Believe I Believe
Constitutional
Define
Freedom Believe Free
Journalists
Mode
Receive
Regardless
Statutory
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There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during the Civil War, Alien and Sedition Acts in World War I, or Japanese internment camps in World War II, presidents have gone too far.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
War
Issues
President
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We must institute reasonable, common-sense limits, such as barring those with a history of mental instability, those with a history of violent crime or adjudged dangerous and subject to restraining orders, and those whose names have been placed on a terrorist watch list from owning weapons.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Instability
Institute
Reasonable
Restraining
Terrorist
Weapons
List
Orders
Owning
Placed
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Whether you agree or disagree with privatization, two things are obvious. First, taxpayers need to be asking more and better questions before handing over control of critical public assets like a highway, an airport, or a parking meter concession. And second, Uncle Sam is being played for a sucker.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Agree
Assets
Critical
Disagree
Meter
Obvious
Parking
Privatization
Sucker
Taxpayers
Airport
Played
Concession
Public
Handing
Highway
Sam
Second
Uncle
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If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Believe
Fbi Agents
Mad
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Justice O'Connor was the fifth vote to uphold the time-honored principle, which bears repeating, of separation of church and state. There was real wisdom in the decision of our forefathers in writing a Constitution that gave us an opportunity to grow as such a diverse nation, and we should never forget it.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Opportunity
Real
Writing
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A journalist gathers information for a media outlet that disseminates the information through a broadly defined 'medium' - including newspaper, nonfiction book, wire service, magazine, news Web site, television, radio or motion picture - for public use. This broad definition covers every form of legitimate journalism.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Defined
Journalism
Journalist
Nonfiction
Site
Wire
Broad
Covers
Legitimate
Magazine
Medium
Motion
Motion Picture
Newspaper
Outlet
Web
Web Site
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When President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the Supreme Court, I said that he deserved a fair hearing and a vote. I said this even though Senate Republicans filibustered dozens of President Obama's judicial nominees and then stopped President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Court
Judicial
Senate
Supreme
Supreme Court
Trump
Vote
Obama
Judge
Deserved
Donald
Donald Trump
Dozens
Fair
Republicans
Garland
Neil
Nominated
Serve
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We borrow 40 cents out of every dollar that we spend. We borrow most of it from countries like China. They have become major creditors of the United States and have more power over our economy than we want them to. So dealing with this is not only the right thing economically, it's certainly right from a moral viewpoint.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Cents
Creditors
Right Thing
Borrow
Dealing
Dollar
Economically
More Power
The Right Thing
Viewpoint
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In my lifetime, it's the Supreme Court, not Congress, that integrated our public schools, that allowed people of different races to marry, and established the principle that our government should respect the value of privacy of American families. These decisions are the legacy of justices who chose to expand American freedom.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Government
Race
School
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If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Conditions
Coverage
Doughnut
Health Care
Health Care Costs
Hurt
People
Senior
Health People Care
Afford
Businesses
Care Costs
Republicans
Health Care People
Gap
Hole
Reach
Seniors
Small Businesses
Suggest
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We need to provide support to those that are fighting ISIS. And we can provide that support: logistically, training, intelligence, air cover. There are many things we have already accomplished successfully. But the notion of sending in rotational troops, as we saw in Iraq in the past, and in Afghanistan, I think we have learned our lesson.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Notion
Troops
Lesson
Sending
Successfully
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We see it in attempts on Capitol Hill to impose gag rules on rules on doctors on what they can say to their patients about family planning. And we certainly see it now with an effort by the government to tap our phones; invade our medical records, credit information, library records and the most sensitive personal information in the name of national security.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Doctors
Names
Phones
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I have thought about this issue of abortion time and again. It is not an easy issue for most people. I came to believe over the years that a woman should be able to make this agonizing decision with her doctor and her family and her conscience, and that we should be very careful that we don't make that decision a crime except in the most extreme circumstances.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Believe
Issues
Years
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If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth and decisive vote to safeguard Americans' right to privacy, to require our courtrooms to grant access to the disabled, to allow the federal government to pass laws to protect the environment, to preserve the right of universities to use affirmative action, to ban the execution of children in America.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
America
Children
Law
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