Charles B. Rangel Quotes

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

• American
• Dream
• Opportunity

The U.S. Congress can do a lot to support America's workplaces and the family. By working together in a bipartisan fashion, we can ensure our constituents get jobs they need while helping employers make smart decisions about their workforce.

• Family
• America
• Together

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

• Running

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

• War
• Education
• Quality

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

• America
• War

America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.

• America
• Greatness

The world has placed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in a separate category because their use constitutes a crime against all humanity.

• World
• Humanity

I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.

• Up
• Good
• Job

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

• Why
• War
• Nature

When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, when they can't get health benefits, when they can't get paid sick days, then we must do whatever we can to stand up for them.

• Up
• Time
• Work

I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ronald Reagan and fired shots that hospitalized the Commander-in-Chief and two others, and left his Press Secretary James Brady paralyzed for life.

• Life
• Remember
• March

Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.

• War
• Friendship

The right to vote should be considered sacred in our democracy.

• Democracy

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.

Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot.

• People
• America

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

• September

As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.

• Believe
• Democracy
• Veteran

Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.

No one looks forward to a recount.

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

• Believe

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Since we replaced the compulsory military draft with an all-volunteer force in 1973, our nation has been making decisions about wars without worry over who fights them. I sincerely believe that reinstating the draft would compel the American public to have a stake in the wars we fight as a nation.

• Believe
• American
• Worry

We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich.