Mike Quigley Quotes

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• We can be just as safe with a smaller, more efficient nuclear arsenal at less cost.
• Just as we can no longer pretend that ducking under wooden desks will keep us safe from a nuclear bomb, we must no longer pretend…
• Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.
• Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the…
• As the largest contributor to the United Nations and funder of international family planning, the U.S. is in a unique position to continue to lead…
• As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and opportunities as my…
• There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.
• Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.
• As a policy maker, I have to stand up for the rights of all my constituents, regardless of their faith.
• Ever since I arrived in Washington in April 2009, I have been fighting for more transparency and accountability in government.
• I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.
• Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.
• We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.
• During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.
• Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
• The people of Chicago have made it very clear that they favor sensible restrictions on gun ownership.
• Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world, which in my…
• Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing…

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