Politician Quotes

I've said my patience is not infinite.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.

I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Everyone has a past.

Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet.

Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack.

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.

You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment.

You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.

The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.

Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.

Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.

It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans.

I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.