Jackie Speier Quotes

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• We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of terrorism - by making sure…
• Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
• We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
• When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
• Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.
• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more.…
• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning…
• Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to…
• When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis,…
• My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.

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