Quotes by Harry Reid - Page 2

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Change
Ethics
House
Want
Rules
Assume
Republicans
Next Thing
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There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of up to 40%.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Benefits
Cutting
Retirement
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Enforcement alone does not work. Unless we address the gap between our immigration laws and reality, illegal immigration will not stop and the situation on the border will continue to be chaotic.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Gaps
Law
Reality
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The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Government
Abuse
Father
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There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Forty
Percent
Retirement
Benefit
Security American More
Cut
Earned
Guaranteed
Replace
Retirement Security
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After I became an attorney, the mother of two girls I'd known in high school came to see me. She'd endured years of heinous abuse from her husband that nearly destroyed her. I'd never suspected a thing.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Girl
Husband
Mother
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This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Jobs
China
Country
Economy
Promise
Skills
Succeed
Great People Will
All Americans
Good-Paying
Holds
Our People
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We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate. And together we can move America forward with Barack Obama in the White House.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Barack
Class
Democratic
Majority
Middle
Middle Class
Moving
Senate
Strong
Together We Can
White House
Obama
Barack Obama
Forward
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It's been obvious that [Republicans]'re doing everything they can to make [Obama] fail. And I hope, I hope - and I say this seriously - I hope that's based on substance and not the fact that he's African-American.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
African American
Facts
Substance
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I understand that during [Sonia Sotomayor's] career, she's written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't read a single one of them, and if I'm fortunate before we end this, I won't have to read one of them.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Careers
Ends
Opinion
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Some said he couldn't take on the insurance companies that were ripping us off. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save lives, save Medicare and ensure no one goes broke just because they get sick.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Broke
Insurance Companies
President
President Obama
Sick
Tough
Ensure
Insurance
Ripping
Save
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We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who dont recognize common ground even when theyre standing on it.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Fall
Hands
Party
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I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Dad
Mom
Desert
Hard Rock
Nevada
Raised
Strong
Tiny
Mom Dad People
Dad Mom People
Miner
Rarely
Talked
Wash
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We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Common Ground
Compromise
Ideologues
Senate
Standing
Tea Party
Extremists
Falls
Ground
Recognize
United States Senate
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My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway. In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Smell
Summer
Tourists
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The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Cowboy
People
Years
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There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
House
Responsibility
White
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It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Courage
Barack
Honor
Presidency
President Barack Obama
Right Thing
Barack Obama
Do The Right Thing
Easy Thing
Leads
The Right Thing
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It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Government
Believe
Economy
Skills
Thrive
Compete
Democrats
Invested
Our People
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Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Country
Dangerous
Defeat
Effort
Insurgency
Political
Safe
Succeed
Troops
Mired
Rebuild
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The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Cutting
Debt
People
President
Senate
Willing
Afraid
American People
Benefit
Cuts
Democrats
Happen
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The war in Iraq is a serious situation. It's - it involves the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this country. So we should take everything serious. This is - we find ourselves in a very deep hole. We need to find a way to dig out of it.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
War
Country
Mistake
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President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country... All Americans should be concerned, not just because he lied to me or the people of Nevada and indeed all Americans, but because the President's decision threatens Americans' lives.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Country
Liars
People
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I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
War
Believe
Iraq
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This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. Im ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Hard Times
Moving
Party
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The president is now having to deal with a Congress. He's never had to do that before. The president in the past, he has just done whatever he wanted. He had a big rubberstamp here up on Capitol Hill, whatever he wanted, they stamped OK. That's not the way it is now.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Done
Past
President
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This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Barack
Difficult
Hard Times
Hardened
Party
Ready
Resolve
Tea Party
Obama
Ahead
Barack Obama
Nation
Forward
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I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Barack
Colleagues
Convinced
Fighting
Giving Up
Hate
President Obama
Vote
White House
Love Power Hate
Obama
Barack Obama
Bush
George
George Bush
More Power
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The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict our country ever faced. Those that won this war did so in obscurity. Those that gave their lives in the cold war have never been properly honored.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
War
Country
Enemy
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The Supreme Court would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer. The current justices have all been chosen from the lower federal courts. A nominee with relevant non-judicial experience would bring a different and useful perspective to the court.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Justice
Perspective
Real
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Unemployment insurance was meant to be a bridge for temporary spells of unemployment. The bad news is all the evidence is that the longer you have unemployment insurance, the longer people stay out of work, their skills erode. The job they ultimately get pays less. And that's not to their benefit.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Evidence
People
Temporary
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We would be somewhat foolish to work out something on stopping us from going over the cliff and then a month or six weeks later Republicans pull the same game they did before and say, 'We're not going to do anything - unless this happens, we're not going to agree to increasing the debt ceiling.' I agree with the president, it has to be a package deal.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Games
President
Work Out
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We stopped the fighting in 1991 on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal constitutes a breach of the armistice which renders it void and justifies resumption of the armed conflict.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Agreement
Fighting
Mass Destruction
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It is no surprise that the Republican-controlled Senate intelligence committee has once again caved in to the wishes of the White House and refused even to open an investigation. We cannot effectively legislate on the NSA spying issue if we do not know the facts, and we will not know them if the Republican-controlled intelligence committee persists in refusing to do its job.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Jobs
Nsa
White
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The best solution would be better strategies for more rapid economic growth and getting people jobs and increases in income. You should simply be clear about matching problems and solutions. If the problem is someone can't find a job because they don't have the skills and they need some retraining, extending emergency unemployment isn't going to solve that. You need the job training programs or the skills bills that come out of the House and are sitting in the Senate.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
Growth
House
People
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Do you know how I feel about that? I'm sure this is no big surprise... what a mistake. I should never have voted for that, but I accepted what [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell and the others said. But it took me just a matter of a few months to realize it was a bad mistake, and my record speaks for itself. I've spoken out against what was going on, not once, not twice, but lots of times. And I'm sorry that I was misled, but I was, and it was a mistake for me to vote for that war.
Harry Reid / United States Senator
War
Military
Sorry
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