Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes
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I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most - hard-pressed working families struggling to reach or stay in the middle class.
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China is eating our lunch with regard to renewable energy.
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A porous border is a danger to America's national security, the people who live near it, and to those who cross it.
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Even people who have successfully obtained a visa are sometimes being turned back at the airport. Such incidents have never happened in the past but are increasing now because even low level officers of the border patrol department are being entrusted with too much discretion power on how they execute the laws.
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There's a lot of good, bipartisan legislation that passes in committee and then gets bottled up. As a businessman, it surprised me.
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If I am elected to Congress, I will put the interests of our community first, and I will actively seek input and respond to it.
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So many of our businesses rely on green card holders - how are we supposed to attract these people if they think they'll be detained at the airport if they go abroad for a wedding or just to show their baby to relatives?
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I think it's so important we're a nation of laws but also a nation of immigrants.
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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.
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In truth, ending DACA will cost us tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.
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A functioning democracy cannot stand when its people do not trust their leaders to uphold the law.
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When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.
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Pocketbook and economic issues is pretty much all I campaigned on.
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As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.
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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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We should never waive the checks on government spending that taxpayers deserve.
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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 the private sector, as the president of a small business, my focus has been on driving the growth of our business, not driving any partisan political agenda.
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Our country's history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that 'all men are created equal' for the members of our ever-expanding national family: women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, gays and lesbians, the disabled, immigrants, and refugees.
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Every night at dinner, my father would say something about the greatness of the United States - and tell us to make sure the government is there for the next people who come along and need it.
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Congress increasingly represents the diversity of America.
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In terms of what I wanted to do before I got into politics, I was a businessman. I ran a company that makes and sells infrared night vision military technology and solar technology, so I wanted to grow that company and pursue groundbreaking technology in each of those areas.
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We need to cut unnecessary weapons programs like the F-35 fighter plane that cost trillions of dollars and don't even work.
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If I am elected to Congress, I plan to introduce legislation tying Congressional pay to performance.