Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes
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I hope that President-elect Trump will drop his unrealistic campaign pledge to deport millions of immigrants who've made their lives in this country and contribute to our country.
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My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.
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America works best when we work together to expand the circle of inclusion.
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I strongly support screening all visitors and potential immigrants thoroughly to prevent bad actors from entering the country.
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Ultimately, much of the dysfunction in Congress is due to the impact of big money, which drowns out the voices of working families and leads to the special treatment of special interests.
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I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.
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We should never waive the checks on government spending that taxpayers deserve.
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The American people need to know if public servants are operating in the best interests of the United States or the Kremlin.
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Donald Trump will become president even after losing the popular vote in our November elections by a wide margin. To govern effectively, he must appeal to a broader base than what he campaigned on and avoid the divisive rhetoric that alienated so many Americans.
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Mail in our country serves as an economic engine.
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All in all, Trumpcare is a bad plan for older Americans.
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I believe you cannot survive in this global economy without some form of postsecondary education.
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I am hopeful that both India and U.S.A. would be able to expand their counter-terror partnership through wider intelligence sharing and effective coordination.
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Illinois is large, but we do not always receive our fair share of federal resources because our leadership is often divided. When we all row together, good things happen.
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Partisan politics is not my passion.
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As the president of a cutting-edge research and development firm, I deal with the development of solutions to long-term national security and renewable energy problems every day and will bring this same perspective to Congress.
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As a candidate for Congress, I proposed a federal infrastructure bank to help local governments fund badly needed projects, including ones in my district. We need to repair and expand our crumbling transportation systems by creating many good-paying construction jobs.
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The fact that Barack Hussein Obama became president is historic, to say the least. Actually, to become U.S. senator, that was historic, and then what he did later on - that's what inspired me to think about running for office.
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Americans want Washington to put aside political differences, find common ground, and start producing real economic solutions for the middle class.
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The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.
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In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.
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In addition to skyrocketing premiums, Trumpcare also unravels protections that older Americans want and need in their health coverage.
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Working with a Republican co-sponsor, Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, I introduced a bill to strengthen our nation's career and technical education programs and more closely align them with the needs of local businesses and industries.
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I'm looking forward to going to Congress to pursue my Working Families Agenda and find areas of bipartisan agreement to move forward on important legislation.