Words matter. These are the best Mark Kirk Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.
I’ve been thinking, in an age of Trump where you don’t know the direction of the country, the person you need most is a steady conservative hand like Mark Kirk in the Senate to be advising the president, especially on national security topics … which is my particular expertise after 23 years in the Navy.
The key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war.
I want to make sure we have elected people constantly looking at helping the African-American community.
I’m pretty disappointed in Sony Pictures’ decision to pull ‘The Interview’ under pressure from North Korea.
The Spending Control Act. It would recreate President Reagan’s grace commission to have a bipartisan commission on how we reduce spending.
With all this rehab, for me just to walk was a huge effort. I had to re-learn how to walk again after the stroke. And all the rehab and all the effort shows the mental determination times 10 to keep serving.
And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don’t think is the right way to go.
The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic state.
I’ve always backed energy independence policies, but I’ve heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district.
We need to focus on issues where we all agree, which is spending discipline and control and making sure that government, both in Springfield and in Washington, doesn’t take more from your family budget.
The tough thing about these senatorial jobs is you get ‘yes’ or ‘no’ votes. Your whole job is to either say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and explain why.
There’s a new role that I see for myself with the new Republican majority running the Senate. I am now the premiere ambassador for the state from the Republican majority.
The Constitution is a total living document that can change quite a bit.
There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.
The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
The intelligence community agrees 30 percent of the terrorists released from Guantanamo are known or suspected to have already re-joined the fight against Americans_- a statistic that translates to a horrific reality.
When you look at the state of the economy right now, you have to set a priority. And my top priority is the deficit of jobs and economic growth, and especially this perception that the United States could be falling behind especially Asian economies.
I would say the difference between ‘old Mark’ and post-stroke Mark … is that pre-stroke Mark was a major micromanager. I just don’t have the time or inclination to micromanage as much as I used to.
Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively.
