Jan Schakowsky Quotes

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• I believe.....this is my final word......I believe that I'm supporting the Constitution of the United States which does not give the right for any individual…
• It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in…
• Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus…
• 20,000 jobs is really not that many jobs.
• As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
• As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life…
• As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve…
• Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our…
• Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place…
• Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.
• Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the…
• Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control…
• When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.
• The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
• There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all…
• Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.
• Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.
• I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing…
• In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.
• Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

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