Firsts Quotes by Bennie Thompson

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see…

— Bennie Thompson

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up…

— Bennie Thompson

Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to…

— Bennie Thompson

While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.

— Bennie Thompson

Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was…

— Bennie Thompson

History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.

— Bennie Thompson

Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America,…

— Bennie Thompson

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

— Bennie Thompson

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not

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I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

— Bennie Thompson

At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.

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Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.

— Bennie Thompson