Top 50 Bill Foster Quotes

I grew up in a family that was always talking about politics.

As we continue to work to pass comprehensive immigration reform, we must take action to stop these predators who are exploiting immigrants attempting to play by the rules.

I think the amount of love and trust on Capitol Hill is often in short supply, and having more dogs here would probably make this place work better and maybe in a more bipartisan manner.

The idea of ensuring that federal research dollars should be reasonably spread around is an arguably useful goal. But it should be done per person, not per state.

It is important to remember the purpose of health care reform: to make sure Americans have access to quality, affordable health care – especially those individuals who were being denied by their insurance companies because they weren’t profitable customers.

Anyone concerned with the broken politics in Washington needs to look no further than Mitch McConnell’s cynical manipulation of the rules and obstruction of the NLRB.

If you’re dealing with live nuclear material, and you do anything that disperses them, it is very hard to hide, even after a 24-day cleanup period, the fact that there was nuclear material in this facility.

I’m not opposed to the idea of helping regions that are struggling to get a reasonable fraction of federal research spending.

If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there’s a housing bubble, or just say that the mortgage on a property cannot be larger than the value of the property three years ago, the amount of human misery that would’ve been avoided would’ve been enormous.

People are people, regardless of who they love or what gender they relate to.

I’m pushing – on a bipartisan basis, actually – to get federal support for the creation of high-quality textbooks that can be downloaded for free on the Internet.

There’s a fundamental question that everyone has to answer: What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man? It’s not something that science helps you answer at all. It’s one of these questions like, Who are you gong to marry? Science doesn’t really help you with the question.

‘Too big to fail’ is fine for restaurant chains. If Denny’s fails, it’s fine for this economy. You can always go down to the TGIFs. But that’s not the same for large-scale investment companies.

I understand clearly as a freshman in Congress, you don’t get to steer the bus.

The amount of subtle and beautiful physics that’s necessary to make a smartphone work is enormous.

The freedoms and prosperity we enjoy in America are thanks to the brave men and women who have served in our armed forces.

My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.

It’s wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.

I support the Affordable Care Act and believe we should take steps to further expand coverage and reduce costs.

Spend a while listening to people in your district to make sure you understand how they are served well in government and how they could be served better.

I am committed to standing up for the LGBTQ community and being a strong voice.

The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and the incompetence of Congress in managing science.

America cannot become just a service and financial services economy, and to prevent that, there is no substitute for having people with successful, real-world manufacturing experience in Congress.

History has not looked kindly on us when we’ve prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.

As a scientist and successful businessman, I understand that no one has a monopoly on good ideas.

I often say that I inherited the family’s recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.

I don’t want to do anything that capitalizes personally on the fact that I’ve been in public service.

The National Endowment for the Arts distributes money to all 50 states, and they try to do their best to distribute to rural and suburban areas. It’s one of the great things about the program. It raises the awareness of culture throughout the population.

One of the big concerns is the increasing disrespect for the scientific method and for policies that aren’t based on facts and evidence.

The fight for a truly inclusive nation that embraces its diversity is not over and perhaps will never be.

Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.

The real question is whether the federal government should be in the business of redistributing wealth to equalize the economic status of every state, including states where not many people, for whatever reason, have chosen to live. That type of redistribution is a distortion of our economy.

In science, if you stand up and say something you know is not correct, that’s career-ending. It used to be that way in politics, but not anymore.

Those who promote hatred, bigotry, and fear do not represent America and do not represent us.

Lawmakers imagine they can be political heroes by voting for budgets that slash scientific research by 20 percent, but they inhibit our ability to respond to health crises.

As we face tough decisions in Washington, we must never forget our responsibility to protect Medicare and preserve it for future generations.

I was surprised that when you get into electoral politics how scientific the analysis was in the electorate. You can identify on a state-by-state or district-by-district basis fundamental building blocks that behave in different ways. I was impressed in general with the sophistication of polling.

I support common-sense measures like universal background checks to prevent guns from falling into the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill.

I am grateful for the sacrifices our veterans have made to defend our freedom and prosperity.

Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax returns.

I supported and voted for the public option in the version of the Affordable Care Act passed by the U.S. House. Had it been incorporated into the final version of the ACA, it would have done much to increase the competitiveness of ACA Exchange Marketplaces.

There’s no way I can run a nonpartisan organization the same time I am running for Congress.

Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what’s true but what he can convince a jury is true.

I support marriage equality and oppose legislation that defines marriage as only being between a man and a woman.

From a scientific point of view, it’s hard for me to understand why someone in the Texas Panhandle should not have access to the same research funds that someone in the Oklahoma Panhandle can have.

I used to say I represented 33% of the strategic reserve of physicists in Congress.

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation.

We have to get back to universities being more focused on education and more connected on what they educate students for to the jobs that actually exist.

Immigrants greatly contribute to our country’s economic prosperity.