Charles B. Rangel Quotes

I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.

• Rumors

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

• Running

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

• September

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

• America
• Greatness

I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.

• Walking
• Kitchen

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

• Country
• Democracy
• Integrity

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

• Political
• Science

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

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

• War
• Education
• Quality

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

We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.

• Country
• Health
• Violence

Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to do.

• Job

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

• Why

As every American who has ever received a paycheck is aware, the amount of money earned and the amount actually brought home are not the same.

• Money
• Home
• American

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

I didn't ever want to leave Manhattan. I have an abnormal fixation.

Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own Kurdish population and Iranian military forces.

• Military

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

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

• Men
• Women
• War

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

• Country
• Society

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

It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.

• 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

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