Tom Harkin Quotes

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• I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.
• It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time to make clear…
• I fully support President Bush's decision to strike Al Qaeda's terrorist network. Now more than ever, we must stand united as a nation and support…
• The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand miles from here. But the attacks on the World…
• While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.
• The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.
• Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese,…
• Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.
• There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.
• The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.
• Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.
• Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its…
• You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.
• [A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy…
• Today, only two groups in the United States have total immunity from lawsuits: foreign diplomats and HMOs. We believe it's time to end diplomatic immunity…
• Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells…
• If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even…
• Prions are highly indestructible.
• America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

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