Chellie Pingree Quotes

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• A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill…
• I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens… a helpful skill in Congress.
• Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why.
• There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the…
• One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
• I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message that it is…
• During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas…
• Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been one of my good friends in the House of Representatives. When she was brutally shot, Gabby was out doing what…
• For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so…
• There is an incredible renewable energy resource off both coasts of this country - wind and tidal energy that can power our economy, create good…
• Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
• Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
• Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.
• The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other two.
• No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two.
• Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.
• As president of Common Cause, I joined a coalition of groups ranging from the Christian Coalition to Consumers Union, and we went to Congress with…
• We need to make Net Neutrality the law. We need to elect a Congress that will make it a priority to keep this important principal…
• With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor…
• I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day.

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