Words matter. These are the best Dick Durbin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The swipe fee reform law that Congress enacted in 2010 was a huge step forward in bringing transparency, competition, and choice to a debit card system that had been rigged by Visa, MasterCard, and the banks.
We’ve had enough with the gun traffickers and straw purchasers who buy guns out of state and sell them out of the trunks of their cars in Chicago.
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.
Town meetings are not bean bag. I’ve had hundreds of them, and sometimes folks get upset. And that’s part of America, part of our process.
I certainly want to be the whip, and that’s an election every two years in the Senate Democratic caucus.
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees – not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.
I want to continue to serve as whip of the caucus.
We happen to believe that emissions going into the atmosphere are not good for us as humans or Mother Earth.
I’m going to do what is best for the caucus.
Where would Monsanto be without the U.S. farm program and world-class research labs?
You’ll never get progress in Washington until you have a majority, bipartisan majority, that really wants to solve problems.
‘Stand your ground’ laws based on the ALEC model have had harmful consequences and need to be reconsidered.
My wish is to bring the troops home as quickly as possible.
Whether you agree or disagree with privatization, two things are obvious. First, taxpayers need to be asking more and better questions before handing over control of critical public assets like a highway, an airport, or a parking meter concession. And second, Uncle Sam is being played for a sucker.
American businesses and consumers deserve a debit card system with competition, transparency, and reasonable fees.
When President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the Supreme Court, I said that he deserved a fair hearing and a vote. I said this even though Senate Republicans filibustered dozens of President Obama’s judicial nominees and then stopped President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland.
It is a challenge to all of us, and it’s a challenge we need to meet, to make sure the Quincy Veterans’ Home is, in fact, giving the best care and the safest care in the state.
You would think that, at this point, with records being kept and the vast amount of knowledge on these drugs, the pharmacists could wave off prescriptions that are dangerous to customers.
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.
I’ve been impressed with Rick Guzman and his commitment to the residents of Aurora since I first met him many years ago.
There are only two honest ways to reduce our debt: cut spending or raise revenues.
America wins when the voiceless have a seat at the table, when the vulnerable are protected, and when working families have the same political clout as the wealthy.
Every day seems to bring news about another for-profit college scam. Hundreds of thousands of students have been deceived, misled, and harassed into enrolling at these schools where they end up with a mountain of debt and a worthless degree.
We believe that there are aspects of border security that Democrats and Republicans can agree on.
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.
Social Security is the most important social program in America.
I enjoy my job, and I will help my state all I can.
I’ve been there; I’ve been in the minority before. It humbles the exalted. But that’s all right.
When we engage in the critical decisions about our nation’s future budgets, I want progressive voices at the table to argue that we must protect the most vulnerable in our society and demand fairness in budget cuts.
We have to really appeal to that sensible center.
We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.
It is tough to run for public office and face an opponent, to decide on issues what is the best thing, then face the criticism from colleagues, voters, the press and defend yourself.
We want to move forward in a bipartisan fashion to solve our problems.
Chairing any Appropriations subcommittee is both a great honor and weighty responsibility.
Our soldiers deserve better. They need a plan for success. They need an administration that is honest about the costs of war, human and otherwise, and they need full accountability and oversight on Capitol Hill.
Personally, I would counsel any woman who asked, in my family, to do her best to carry the child full term, and I’d try to help. But I do believe the government should not prohibit a woman from making that decision.
Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of the press, I believe we must define a journalist and the constitutional and statutory protections those journalists should receive.
When I hear my friend John Boehner say that we have the best health care in the world, I don’t dispute it for a moment. If I were sick, this is the country I want to be in, with these doctors, these hospitals, and these medical professionals.
When you’re talking about long-term deficit reduction, $4 trillion worth, entitlement reform needs to be part of it.
We all make mistakes. But I’m lucky. Being from Illinois and from the Midwest, we believe in pretty basic fairness. Once you’ve made a mistake, get up, dust yourself off, and go to work.
I’m confident ITT will get what it deserves.
The notion that a company would give up on this nation to get a tax break isn’t going to sit well with the American people.
You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.
Like so many large companies in the U.S., Monsanto has prospered in large part due to U.S. taxpayer-funded programs and services.
I think for all of us who call East St. Louis part of our heritage, we want to make a better day for the city.
We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.
We need to respect free speech, but we need to respect one another’s rights to free speech, too.
Taxpayers across the U.S. have invested hundreds of billions of dollars building our nation’s infrastructure, and that investment should be protected.
Reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions spares our planet from the well-documented degradation that we are witnessing on a global basis.
This city of East St. Louis needs a tomorrow.
Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.
There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.
It is absolutely unacceptable to single out any political group – right, left, or center – and say we’re going to target them. That is unthinkable.
Magazine clips with more than 10 rounds should be prohibited from civilian use.
A journalist gathers information for a media outlet that disseminates the information through a broadly defined ‘medium’ – including newspaper, nonfiction book, wire service, magazine, news Web site, television, radio or motion picture – for public use. This broad definition covers every form of legitimate journalism.
I’ve known Al Franken for over 20 years. He is my friend. He was on the floor of the Senate announcing his resignation. I sat just a few feet away from him. He said it was the worst day in his political life. It was a somber feeling. It was a reality.
More people working and paying taxes reduces government expenditures and helps us move a little closer to balance.
We must institute reasonable, common-sense limits, such as barring those with a history of mental instability, those with a history of violent crime or adjudged dangerous and subject to restraining orders, and those whose names have been placed on a terrorist watch list from owning weapons.
Until we make campaigns affordable, then we’re going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups.
In July of 2006, I visited the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It was important for me to see Guantanamo firsthand and to meet the military personnel who are doing such a great job for our country.
