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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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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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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#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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Everyone who has succeeded in correcting their wrong should have the right to work.
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It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.
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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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I've got hundreds of friends who are police officers. I work with the police.
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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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I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.
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I don't think you decree political positions.
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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 have as much money as Rahm Emanuel.
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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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My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.
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The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.
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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.