Bill Foster Quotes
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Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what's true but what he can convince a jury is true.
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I support common-sense measures like universal background checks to prevent guns from falling into the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill.
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There's no way I can run a nonpartisan organization the same time I am running for Congress.
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The amount of subtle and beautiful physics that's necessary to make a smartphone work is enormous.
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I am committed to standing up for the LGBTQ community and being a strong voice.
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The NLRB provides important protections to American workers.
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If you're dealing with live nuclear material, and you do anything that disperses them, it is very hard to hide, even after a 24-day cleanup period, the fact that there was nuclear material in this facility.
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The real question is whether the federal government should be in the business of redistributing wealth to equalize the economic status of every state, including states where not many people, for whatever reason, have chosen to live. That type of redistribution is a distortion of our economy.
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It's wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.
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My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.
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Science, logic, and truth should not be partisan issues; they are the cornerstones of fields that have made the United States a leader in innovation and a better place for everyone to live.
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I think the amount of love and trust on Capitol Hill is often in short supply, and having more dogs here would probably make this place work better and maybe in a more bipartisan manner.
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I believe we need a balanced, bipartisan approach to debt reduction that includes a combination of spending cuts, investments in economic growth, and simplification of the tax code that closes corporate loopholes that incentivize companies to ship jobs overseas.
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Science has improved public health, taken us to the moon, and allowed us to understand the origins of our universe. It also has given us the tools to solve problems now instead of reacting to them after it is too late.
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My dad spent most of the '50s and early '60s actually acting as sort of an advance man for the Justice Department, as a civil rights lawyer. So it was actually reading his papers after he passed away a few years ago that first started me thinking about this... What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man?
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I was surprised that when you get into electoral politics how scientific the analysis was in the electorate. You can identify on a state-by-state or district-by-district basis fundamental building blocks that behave in different ways. I was impressed in general with the sophistication of polling.
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If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there's a housing bubble, or just say that the mortgage on a property cannot be larger than the value of the property three years ago, the amount of human misery that would've been avoided would've been enormous.
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Veterans often need medical and psychological assistance, and often, for them, it is hard to ask for help, but we want them to know they are not alone.
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Alan Greenspan is going to go down in history as one of the worst Federal Reserve chairmen ever.
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As a businessman, I know that businesses need certainty.
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Measles may not spread as fast as erroneous sound bites and tweets, but they both have the potential to cause a great amount of damage.
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As someone who started a small business from scratch, I know how important it is for families and for communities to have strong job creation.
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There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.
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I grew up in a family that was always talking about politics.