John Conyers Quotes

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• Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.
• Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.
• There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to…
• When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.
• The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.
• The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
• Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas…
• The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters…
• The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to…
• I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out…
• We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold…
• A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic…
• Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on…
• The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that…
• I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either…
• It is a Federal crime to hijack an automobile; it is a Federal crime to possess cocaine. It ought to be a Federal crime to…

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