Dick Durbin Quotes

• And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.

  Dick Durbin

  Powerful, Believe, Banking Crisis

  "Dick Durbin: Banks “Frankly Own The Place”". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2009.

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• We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

  Dick Durbin

  Police, Needs, Safe

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• We have a long way to go, some tough issues ahead of us, and I'm sure there will be some obstacles in the path ... But the good faith effort that's being put into this absolutely is encouraging to me and gives me hope.

  Dick Durbin

  Issues, Long, Giving

  "Harry Reid On Immigration: I’m Committed To Getting Bipartisan Plan ‘Over The Finish Line’" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

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• We have 11 million people in this country that need a pathway to citizenship.

  Dick Durbin

  Country, People, Pathways

  "Durbin: All illegal immigrants must have pathway to citizenship" by John Bresnahan, www.politico.com. February 10, 2013.

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• If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

  Dick Durbin

  Art, Taken, Frustration

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• Illinois Senator Paul Simon, once said "The test for a Supreme Court nominee is not where he stands on any one specific issue. The test is this: Will you use your power on the court to restrict freedom or expand it?"

  Dick Durbin

  Issues, Illinois, Use

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. 9 de enero de 2006.

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• Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

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  Party, Home, Illinois

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• The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.

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  America, Rights, Liberty

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. 9 de enero de 2006.

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• It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

  Dick Durbin

  Senior, Country, Cutting

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• You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

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  Effort, Purpose, Filibuster

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• We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face.

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  Sacrifice, Men, Brave

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• God is not a franchise of the Republican Party.

  Dick Durbin

  Party, Republican, Republican Party

  "Controversial Democratic platform gets a rewrite". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised

  Dick Durbin

  Giving, Quality, Vets

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• These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.

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  Country, Men, Risk

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• In my lifetime, it's the Supreme Court, not Congress, that integrated our public schools, that allowed people of different races to marry, and established the principle that our government should respect the value of privacy of American families. These decisions are the legacy of justices who chose to expand American freedom.

  Dick Durbin

  School, Race, Government

  Senate Confirmation Hearings - Day 1, www.nytimes.com. January 9, 2006.

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• If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth and decisive vote to safeguard Americans' right to privacy, to require our courtrooms to grant access to the disabled, to allow the federal government to pass laws to protect the environment, to preserve the right of universities to use affirmative action, to ban the execution of children in America.

  Dick Durbin

  Children, Law, America

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. 9 de enero de 2006.

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• If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings.

  Dick Durbin

  Believe, Fbi Agents, Mad

  Speech on the Senate floor, www.washingtontimes.com. June 16, 2005.

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• Es inaceptable que los veteranos discapacitados de Illinois ocupen los últimos puestos de la lista en lo que respecta a la paga por discapacidad. Debemos a nuestros veteranos discapacitados algo más que discursos, desfiles y monumentos.

  Dick Durbin

  Veterans Day, Illinois, Speech

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• If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

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  Senior, Hurt, People

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• Lamentablemente, la rebaja fiscal republicana privará de importantes ingresos a muchos Estados que se enfrentan a sus propios déficits. Esto creará una mayor presión para aumentar los impuestos estatales y locales.

  Dick Durbin

  Cutting, Important, Pressure

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• The last stop to protect rights and liberties is the Supreme Court.

  Dick Durbin

  Rights, Liberty, Lasts

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Es difícil imaginar que hace 40 años la gente pudiera ser condenada por un delito, multada o enviada a prisión por utilizar los métodos anticonceptivos más comunes.

  Dick Durbin

  Years, People, Birth Control

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. 9 de enero de 2006.

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• Let me tell you, the first president to recognize the state of Israel was Harry Truman, a Democrat. And every president since, Democrat and Republican, have stood closely with Israel.

  Dick Durbin

  Israel, Harry Truman, President

  "Durbin Dodges Questions on No 'God,' 'Jerusalem' in Democratic Party Platform". Interview with Bret Baier, nation.foxnews.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.

  Dick Durbin

  Believe, Mean, Helping Others

  "Durbin Dodges Questions on No 'God,' 'Jerusalem' in Democratic Party Platform". Interview with Bret Baier, nation.foxnews.com. September 5, 2012.

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• We are dealing with the question of the 11 million people paying their taxes, having a path to legalization and, then, ultimately, to citizenship. Tough issues but we are coming together and I think we can do it.

  Dick Durbin

  Pensamiento, Cuestiones, Personas

  "Sens. Dick Durbin and Bob Corker on chances of budget compromise; battle over GOP's future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.", www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2013.

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