Quotes by Jeff Merkley - Page 1

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Budgets
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Priorities
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There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Consent
Filibuster
Talking
Two
Way
Unanimous
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I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Oregon
Southern
Worker
Table
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Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Choices
Leaving
Real
Wallet
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Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Carbon
Causes
Decades
Global Warming
Human Health
Pollution
Proven
Research
Scientific Research
Harmful
Scientific
Warming
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There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Capable
Degrees
Nursing
Pursue
School
Thousands
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Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Challenges
Needs
Track
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My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Consent
Filibuster
Object
Unanimous
Viewing
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For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Cards
Credit
Long
Transactions
Wealth
Credit Cards
Mortgages
Stripped
Working Families
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I wont stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Jobs
Opportunity
Fighting
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I won't stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Decent
Life Opportunity Better
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Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Access
Affordable
Health Care
Health Care Reform
Health Quality Care
Every American
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We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Physicians
Best Health World
Health Insurance
Insurance
Nurses
Options
Supply
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I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Arithmetic
Fighting
Vote
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We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Jobs
Children
Clean
Clean Energy
Energy
Energy Policy
Grandchildren
Policy
Status Quo
Better Shape
Sustainable
Leave
Longer
Planet
Quo
Shape
Status
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There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Corruption
Police
Thug
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What [Bernie] Sanders has done is he's focused the nation on the fact that these things are not inevitable. They are the result of policies. We can do better to create an economy that works well for working Americans.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Done
Economy
Facts
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It's time to level the playing field for small business owners and give them the same health care choices that large corporations have. Because they don't have as many employees, they have little ability to negotiate lower rates.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Business Owners
Choices
Corporations
Health Care
Owners
Small Business
Small Business Owners
Employees
Negotiate
Playing Field
Rates
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A budget should be judged by whether it creates a foundation for the success of American working families striving to buy a house, or to send their kids to college, or to save a little for retirement and, if they're lucky, a vacation.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Vacation
Judged
Retirement
Budget
Creates
Striving
Send
Working Families
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When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Delay
Filibuster
Length
Occasions
Rare
Count
Envision
Rare Occasions
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Too many Americans who are uninsured or under-insured do not receive regular checkups because they can't afford coverage or their insurance doesn't cover enough of the costs. The lack of preventive care results in countless emergency room visits and health care disasters for families.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Emergency Room
Health Care
Preventive Care
Afford
Countless
Cover
Disasters
Emergency
Insurance
Preventive
Receive
Uninsured
Visits
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We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get sick. Small business owners shouldn't have to break the bank to provide coverage to their employees. And families should not be forced into bankruptcy because of a medical crisis.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Bankruptcy
Business Owners
Coverage
Crisis
Owners
Sick
Small Business
Small Business Owners
Bank
Dropped
Employees
Ensure
Forced
Patients
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Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Acid
Cancer
Disease
Heart
Heart Disease
Lakes
Loved Ones
Rain
Rivers
Sewage
Ahead
Choked
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Neighbors
Pour
Skies
Thousands
Victims
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That's a question best put to Bernie Sanders himself, but I think that he will probably put forward ideas that are related to the corrupting role of Citizens United and Buckley versus Valeo court decisions and the need to restore a by-and-for-the-people republic envisioned in our Constitution instead of the of-, by- and for-the-most-powerful system that we have right now.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Ideas
Powerful
Thinking
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We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge resonance of the vision that Senator ["Bernie"] Sanders was putting forward.This has inspired millions of citizens - a style of campaign we've never seen before winning 22 states, extraordinary number of caucuses. Now the challenge is to bring the two halves of the party together.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
Party
Two
Winning
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The economy, virtually all the new income has gone to the top 10 percent, and we need to find those areas where we can actually make a change in that. And that includes enhancing manufacturing jobs in this country, it includes the ability to go to community college for free, it includes the ability to have debt-free higher education, it includes career technical education in our high schools. It also includes taking on the pharmaceutical companies on the extravagant prices that they`re charging for the drugs. Americans need to stay healthy.
Jeff Merkley / United States Senator
College
Country
School
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