Max Baucus Quotes

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• Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
• Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.
• U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.
• The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must…
• Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.
• I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet.
• IRAs are intended for retirement.
• It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.
• The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine…
• The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world…
• If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my…
• Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.
• Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.
• I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a…
• Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.
• There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have…
• In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.
• The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete.
• You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.
• Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

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