Quotes by Joe Sestak - Page 2

Your U.S. military has the best child care in the nation. Full, paid family and medical leave benefits. Why aren't we doing that to empower our workforce?
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Child Care
Workforce
Empower
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Yes, I'll stand up to the party if they're wrong and they aren't going the right way for people in Pennsylvania. But I do believe in Democratic principles.
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Democratic
Party
Pennsylvania
Principles
Right Way
Believe People Way
Stand Up
Yes
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I wore the cloth of the nation for over 31 years in peace and war, from the Vietnam and Cold War eras, to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the emergence of China.
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Cold War
Emergence
Eras
Vietnam
War Peace Cold War
Cloth
Wore
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Instead of measuring military readiness in terms of overall size and numbers, we must focus on metrics of capability, particularly in technology, and positioning.
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Capability
Measuring
Readiness
Overall
Positioning
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Just as we need a productive warrior force to carry out our national defense mission, our national workforce must be equally able to carry out our economic mission.
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Defense
National Defense
Workforce
Equally
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To be productive and focused, the rugged individuals in our economy need health security so that our country can remain competitive and agile in the changing economy.
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Rugged
Agile
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Those who are in our military and now have retired or they left the service actually respect candor. And they respect those that speak without trying to politicize who they are.
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Candor
Retired
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Human rights in China should absolutely play a role in broader U.S. policy toward China. When we look the other way on fundamental issues of human rights, we are also responsible.
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Human Rights
Broader
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I want to restore U.S. leadership within a rules-based liberal world order that collectively holds nations accountable for their illiberal behavior, whether in foreign or domestic spheres.
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Spheres
World Order
Accountable
Collectively
Domestic
Holds
Restore
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The United States must ensure that Iran does not attain nuclear weapons, as this poses a direct threat to our interests, including Israel, and would in all likelihood provoke a regional arms race.
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Arms
Arms Race
Iran
Likelihood
Nuclear Weapons
Threat
Weapons
Attain
Ensure
Poses
Provoke
Regional
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I have seen how payday lenders and check cashing outfits set up in towns around military bases to take advantage of young service members, whose starting salaries are barely over $20,000 per year.
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Bases
Military Bases
Outfits
Towns
Barely
Check
Salaries
Take Advantage
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For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes, and brigades is what most matters - just like during the Cold War.
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Cold
Cold War
Mark
Military
Numbers
Planes
Prowess
Ships
Size
Believing
Brigade
Matters
Forces
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The way forward in the Middle East, as it has been around the world and throughout history, is communication. There must be direct talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, mediated by the United States.
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Communication
Direct
East
Middle
Middle East
States
Forward
Israelis
Palestinians
Talks
Throughout
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We can improve the military at less cost and with increased capability. It's not acceptable to keep investing in structure when we would be wiser to invest in dominating the new warfare domain of cyberspace.
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Acceptable
Capability
Cyberspace
Domain
Investing
Warfare
Wiser
Invest
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Well, you know, I kind of lived my whole life with people, on a Navy ship, and I'm son of an immigrant. And we've all - really appreciate being able to make something clear in a simple way that families quite understand.
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Navy
Life Simple People
Simple Way
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Some of the greatest national security threats we face cannot be defeated or defended by traditional military hardware, but only by greatly enhanced cyberspace warfare, including both offensive cyber-warfare and cyber-security.
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Cyberspace
Defeated
Hardware
National Security
Offensive
Warfare
Enhanced
Greatly
Threats
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We must end semi-automatic weapons that are used for war. We don't want those in the streets of America and that's why I've got to go to the people on this, not just the elected representatives and Senate, just like I did in my district.
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Representatives
Senate
Streets
Weapons
War People America
District
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A President can obstruct justice and Congress has the full right to hold a President accountable for such law-breaking through impeachment. After a President leaves office, I believe they may be held accountable through the courts as well.
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Congress
Impeachment
Office
Accountable
Believe I Believe May
Courts
Hold
Held
Leaves
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In the face of a rising China, along with authoritarian regimes from Brazil to the Philippines to Turkey to Russia, and the constant presence of belligerent non-state actors, we need to reform our military to deal with asymmetrical threats.
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Brazil
China
Constant
Military
Philippines
Reform
Regimes
Rising
Russia
Actor
Face
Authoritarian
Belligerent
Deal
Presence
Threats
Turkey
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When all Americans believe that the people we elect deserve to be in power, that their conduct in office is worthy of respect, and that they can be held accountable for their decisions, our politics will finally be worthy of our great people.
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Deserve
Great People
Office
Worthy
Decisions
Accountable
All Americans
Conduct
Elect
Finally
Held
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What this nation most wants, most yearns for, most needs is someone where people know, all Americans know, that even when they disagree well with him, he will always be accountable to them above one's party, above self and any special interest.
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Disagree
Always People Will
Accountable
All Americans
People Will Always
Special Interest
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I understand the challenge with student loans. But what about the labor force, the enlisted men and women, so to speak, of ships. Those who work with their hands and their minds. We need to do what we do in the military, is we train and retrain.
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Enlisted
Force
Labor
Men And Women
Military
Ships
Speak
Work Men Women
Challenge
Student
Work Women Men
Loans
Minds
Student Loans
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I believe we should be investing in the potential of nuclear technology based on thorium, to end the use of plutonium and lead to much safer nuclear power plants, less toxic nuclear waste, and less opportunities for nuclear weapons proliferation.
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Investing
Nuclear Power
Plutonium
Power Plants
Proliferation
Toxic
Waste
Weapons
Plants
Safer
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Our country desperately needs a president with a depth of global experience and an understanding of all the elements of our nation's power, from our economy and our diplomacy to the power of our ideals and our military, including its limitations.
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Depth
Diplomacy
Elements
Ideals
Limitations
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I come from a background in the military where everyone had health care. We understood the value of education as a given. You learn a skill, earn a pension and go on to 'Be all that you can be'... You invest in people. You hold people accountable.
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Pension
Accountable
Invest
Earn
Skill
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Americans want someone who is accountable to them above self, above party, and above any special interest. They want a President that has a depth of global experience to restore U.S. leadership to the world and to protect our American dream at home.
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American Dream
Depth
Accountable
Restore
Special Interest
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Collectively, we must find points of leverage in order to convince China to improve their treatment of Uighurs, Tibetans, and other minority groups, to ensure the autonomy of Hong Kong, and to continue to protect democracy in Taiwan, among other issues.
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Autonomy
China
Democracy
Groups
Hong Kong
Issues
Order
Protect
Taiwan
Treatment
Among
Collectively
Continue
Ensure
Improve
Leverage
Minority
Points
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Our 21st-century world is an incredibly dangerous one. Between brutal civil wars, violent extremism, spreading autocracy, rising inequality, territorial expansionism, election interference, and nuclear proliferation, our policymakers have their hands full.
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Autocracy
Brutal
Election
Extremism
Inequality
Interference
Proliferation
Rising
Territorial
Civil Wars
Policymakers
Spreading
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We did more to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions with a computer virus than we ever could have with bombs (and we did still more with diplomacy - the abandonment of which is also bad for our military, because militaries can only stop a problem, not fix a problem).
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Abandonment
Bombs
Diplomacy
Iran
Fix
Thwart
Virus
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We must make sure the stigma is removed around mental health and commanders must make it clear on a consistent basis that their door is open for everyone. Servicemembers need to know that command is there for them, to offer assistance however and wherever needed.
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Assistance
Mental Health
Stigma
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I favor every worker having access to a retirement savings account, and there are various options for doing this. I do support states implementing their own plans, and I expect them to play an important role in increasing retirement savings for young professionals especially.
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Implementing
Plans
Retirement
Account
Worker
Favor
Important Role
Increasing
Options
Professionals
Savings Account
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Launching a ground war against Iran would require hundreds of thousands of troops for a 'regime change followed by nation-building' operation, as we attempted in Iraq. Iran has a much more modern military, more than double Iraq's population, and almost four times the landmass.
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Iran
Launching
Nation Building
Population
Troops
Attempted
Double
Followed
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Operation
Require
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On the aircraft carrier under my command, where the average age of sailors was 19 and a half, you could see accountability in action at all times. You especially saw it when an order was given that a plane about to launch suddenly must be switched out for another and kept on board.
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Accountability
Aircraft
Carrier
Board
Launch
Plane
Sailors
Switched
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Before the CFPB, there was no single agency or entity within the federal government tasked with protecting Americans from predatory or negligent practices of banks, credit card companies, mortgage lenders, payday lenders, credit rating agencies and other financial service businesses.
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Credit Card
Entity
Federal Government
Mortgage
Rating
Agencies
Banks
Card
Credit Rating
Practices
Protecting
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Created by Congress as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the CFPB was a direct response to the financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession that began with the subprime mortgage debacle and the unraveling of Lehman Brothers investment bank.
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Dodd Frank
Financial Crisis
Mortgage
Protection
Response
Unraveling
Bank
Consumer
Recession
Wall Street
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I really believe, if I learned anything in the military, it was that I was accountable for my actions and I like to be part of the team that kind of brings that back to Washington, D.C. - not just responsibility, but accountability and being ready to lose my job over doing what's right.
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Accountability
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Certainly, the JCPOA was not a perfect agreement. It did not deal with the threat from Iranian missiles, or their support for violent extremism. And it contains a 'sunset clause,' meaning it expires after a decade. But it was accomplishing the one goal it set out to achieve: stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
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Developing
Extremism
Iran
Missiles
Nuclear Weapons
Stopping
Sunset
Weapons
Accomplishing
Clause
Contains
Decade
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I do not agree with the use of 'signing statements' to effectively act as a line-item veto, except when the President believes a law or a provision within a law is unconstitutional.In general, if a President signs a law, they are committing themselves to enforcing it. If they don't believe it should become a law, they should veto it.
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Provision
Signing
Statements
Veto
Believes
Committing
Effectively
Enforcing
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Look, it's no longer about capacity, how many ships, how many air wings, how many battalions. It's about capability. If we dominate cyber space and know and can read the other guy's mail, and with a very accurate laser-guided munitions put it in this window or that window, it's not how much, it's knowing exactly where to pinpoint a target.
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Accurate
Air
Capability
Cyber
Mail
Ships
Target
Window
Battalions
Dominate
Exactly
How Much
Longer
Pinpoint
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Look, I went to war, and we knew by survey that when I went to war that we had a certain percentage in that carrier battle group, and when I was on the ground briefly in Afghanistan, that were gay. And now we come back to America and say they don't have equal rights. I've never understood it. This is something where we have to correct this.
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Afghanistan
Carrier
Equal Rights
Correct
Percentage
Survey
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