Quotes by Tammy Duckworth - Page 3

Female service members are so integrated into the military, so critical and vital to all functions of the military, from combat service support to combat support, to direct combat, that we could not go to war as a nation - we could not defend America - without our women.
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
Combat
Critical
Direct
Female
Integrated
Members
Military
Support
Nation
Defend
Functions
Service
Vital
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On average, women need to be asked to run seven times before they actually do. While men, who are more likely to run, usually decide to do so on their own. We should be asking more women we know to run for offices across the spectrum - at the local, state, and federal levels.
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
Running
Men
Office
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I know firsthand that immigrants make enormous contributions to our nation, but I also know that we need to secure our borders and make sure that those who came here illegally wait their turn, pay a fine and any unpaid taxes, and pass a criminal background check before becoming citizens.
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
Borders
Enormous
Immigrants
Secure
Check
Contributions
Criminal
Firsthand
Unpaid
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As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
Afternoon
Airmen
Friday
Worried
Me Day Every Day
Reed
Helicopter
Marines
Pulled
Recovered
Sailors
Soldiers
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
Bombs
Cambodia
Distance
Exploding
Helping
Little Kid
Roof
Scared
Strange
Flashes
Happening
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My job now is to not give up, to continue advocating and fighting for the issues Secretary Clinton ran her campaign on. I have to do that to show young girls in this country that they truly can grow up to be whatever they want to be - they need to know that they can grow up to be president.
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
Girl
Country
Giving Up
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Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
Belly
Empty
Food Stamps
Grateful
Lost
Needed
Our Lives
Program
Schoolwork
Sleeves
Stamps
Support
Nobody
Rebuild
Wants
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I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
Blood
Blood Pressure
Combat
Congress
Dosage
Fine
Fourteen
Helicopters
Medication
Pressure
Recovery
Six
Survived
Hospital
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I do not have PTSD, but if I watch part of a movie like 'The Hurt Locker,' or when I spend time around Blackhawk helicopters, I will close my eyes that night and live an entire day in Iraq, flying my missions. I remember the smell and the feel and the heat and everything about it. Then I wake up in Illinois, and I'm exhausted.
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
Exhausted
Flying
Heat
Illinois
Missions
Smell
Locker
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I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and - at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together - that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world.
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
Experience
Community
Engaging
Focused
National Unity
Our Community
Sacrifice
Strongest
Together
Unity
Apart
Bringing
Nation
Foster
Help
Personal
Personal Experience
Rekindle
Seem
Sense
Shared
Tearing
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