Danny K. Davis Quotes
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To ensure fair competition, there must be effective controls on currency manipulation, and monopoly pricing needs to be outlawed on such items as intellectual property, especially pharmaceuticals.
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Universal coverage is a critical goal, but even if every man and woman, every parent and every child in America woke up with an insurance card in their hands, they would still need a place to go for health care.
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Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation.
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I have a great deal of respect and affinity for Tammy Duckworth; she's a seatmate of mine. She's got heart, soul; she's a war hero.
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#BlackLivesMatter brought a new sense of urgency, audacity, and outrage to the issue of police violence against black men that has made it impossible to ignore, to cover up, or to justify.
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I've enjoyed a great friendship and relationship and have a tremendous amount of affinity for both the Clintons... and I'd like to keep it that way.
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Many of the young people living in inner-city America don't see themselves - I mean, they even talk about things like death and dying. And there's a tremendous loss of hope. And of all the things to lose, I think nothing is worse or more difficult to overcome than the loss of hope.
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The arts are what humanize science and history.
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I voted proudly for the first time for John Fitzgerald Kennedy for president of the United States.
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It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.
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I have a tendency to campaign positively and campaign on issues, not try to tear someone else down.
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What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs.
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Everyone who has succeeded in correcting their wrong should have the right to work.
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Some of the huge tax breaks that we gave to the wealthiest 1 percent of the population in this country during the Bush era have contributed significantly to the deficit.
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I don't think you decree political positions.
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I've got hundreds of friends who are police officers. I work with the police.
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We borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War, and so there was a debt owed. We paid it. If we have done that for 235 years, if we have done it ever since this country has existed, we can do it again.
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One thing I always say when I discuss guns with people - if a gun is not present, it's generally more difficult to do irreparable harm.
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I don't have as much money as Rahm Emanuel.
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My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.
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I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.
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Whether the struggle was between English merchants and the American colonies, pre Civil War northern manufacturers vs. southern slave holders, or American grain farmers and auto manufacturers seeking advantage in the Mexican agriculture and labor markets in the 1990s, U.S. policy has reflected the economic clash of interests of the day.
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People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.
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I believe in democracy. I also believe in religious freedom.