Words matter. These are the best Joe Sestak Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Just as we need a productive warrior force to carry out our national defense mission, our national workforce must be equally able to carry out our economic mission.
If you lease a part of your soul in a campaign, Washington, D.C., and the establishment… will think they have an option to buy.
Having served in the military, I know that militaries can stop a problem, but they can’t fix a problem.
To be productive and focused, the rugged individuals in our economy need health security so that our country can remain competitive and agile in the changing economy.
The citizens of this nation gave us – my wife and I – a health care plan that saved our daughter’s life.
Our country desperately needs a president with a depth of global experience and an understanding of all the elements of our nation’s power, from our economy and our diplomacy to the power of our ideals and our military, including its limitations.
In the military, we just don’t leave fights.
Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.
For a public option, I voted for that when I was in Congress, and the Senate couldn’t stand up to the health insurance industry and took it out.
I don’t want to be president if I have to win by outrage. I don’t want to just win. I want to govern, and not just by executive order.
We need to transform our military forces by focusing on force posture, not force structure.
I think we do stand in this nation for equal rights for everybody.
We were rugged individualists in the Navy, but we all had health care.
Everybody in the military is a Democrat. They just don’t know it.
I would immediately rejoin the Paris Accords and reassert U.S. leadership in the critical process of global diplomacy.
I want to be that President who serves the American people the way they deserve to be served.
We can improve the military at less cost and with increased capability. It’s not acceptable to keep investing in structure when we would be wiser to invest in dominating the new warfare domain of cyberspace.
We need a president who will stand up for the CFPB and get it back into fighting shape. It is too important to be allowed to disintegrate.
You can get so focused on a strategy and making it work that you lose sight of your larger mission.
A President can obstruct justice and Congress has the full right to hold a President accountable for such law-breaking through impeachment. After a President leaves office, I believe they may be held accountable through the courts as well.
I’m not beholden to one party or any special interests.
If you have a president who is really trusted, then you can move and advance those policies that actually make the American dream available to everyone.
We must make sure the stigma is removed around mental health and commanders must make it clear on a consistent basis that their door is open for everyone. Servicemembers need to know that command is there for them, to offer assistance however and wherever needed.
I believe in national service, where you can join AmeriCorps or the military.
Warfare has changed so dramatically.
For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes, and brigades is what most matters – just like during the Cold War.
Well, you know, I kind of lived my whole life with people, on a Navy ship, and I’m son of an immigrant. And we’ve all – really appreciate being able to make something clear in a simple way that families quite understand.
Your U.S. military has the best child care in the nation. Full, paid family and medical leave benefits. Why aren’t we doing that to empower our workforce?
On the aircraft carrier under my command, where the average age of sailors was 19 and a half, you could see accountability in action at all times. You especially saw it when an order was given that a plane about to launch suddenly must be switched out for another and kept on board.
Created by Congress as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the CFPB was a direct response to the financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession that began with the subprime mortgage debacle and the unraveling of Lehman Brothers investment bank.
I want to restore U.S. leadership within a rules-based liberal world order that collectively holds nations accountable for their illiberal behavior, whether in foreign or domestic spheres.
People don’t trust party leaders.
The Democratic Party has been perceived to have a deficit of credibility on defense issues since the Vietnam War, unfairly or not.
When all Americans believe that the people we elect deserve to be in power, that their conduct in office is worthy of respect, and that they can be held accountable for their decisions, our politics will finally be worthy of our great people.
One answer to transportation infrastructure funding is public-private partnerships.
In the Navy, I slept mere feet from a nuclear reactor, so I have no knee-jerk opposition to traditional reactors.
What people in Washington worry about – they forget about the people. They forget the mission.
The career politicians down in Washington don’t want to be held accountable.
Those who are in our military and now have retired or they left the service actually respect candor. And they respect those that speak without trying to politicize who they are.
When there’s no light at the end of the tunnel, it’s hard to keep things going.
If elected president, it will be my solemn duty to always hold myself accountable to the American people. They deserve nothing less.
Nuclear power can continue to help us reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, but we must do everything we can to make it safer.
Before the CFPB, there was no single agency or entity within the federal government tasked with protecting Americans from predatory or negligent practices of banks, credit card companies, mortgage lenders, payday lenders, credit rating agencies and other financial service businesses.
Economic mobility will fix income inequality.
Collectively, we must find points of leverage in order to convince China to improve their treatment of Uighurs, Tibetans, and other minority groups, to ensure the autonomy of Hong Kong, and to continue to protect democracy in Taiwan, among other issues.
A comprehensive approach to a two-state solution is not just, we believe, in Israel’s interest. It’s in our interest.
I want to be a public servant, not a politician.
Our 21st-century world is an incredibly dangerous one. Between brutal civil wars, violent extremism, spreading autocracy, rising inequality, territorial expansionism, election interference, and nuclear proliferation, our policymakers have their hands full.
We did more to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions with a computer virus than we ever could have with bombs (and we did still more with diplomacy – the abandonment of which is also bad for our military, because militaries can only stop a problem, not fix a problem).
Trade is part of our national security.
I don’t think people need to worry about how I stand.
The greatest brotherhood, sisterhood that I was ever a part of are veterans.
America can’t go sideways anymore.
Certainly, the JCPOA was not a perfect agreement. It did not deal with the threat from Iranian missiles, or their support for violent extremism. And it contains a ‘sunset clause,’ meaning it expires after a decade. But it was accomplishing the one goal it set out to achieve: stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
In the face of a rising China, along with authoritarian regimes from Brazil to the Philippines to Turkey to Russia, and the constant presence of belligerent non-state actors, we need to reform our military to deal with asymmetrical threats.
The Democratic Party isn’t any good unless they know it’s about people!
Our enlisted are the backbone of our service, are exceptionally a bright group of men women.
At the end of the day, Israel is its own self-determining government.
Executive privilege is nowhere to be found in the Constitution, and thus is a very limited principle.
Cyberspace is the new domain of warfare.
I’m a guy that verifies before he trusts.
I don’t look at Israel through the prism of running an election.
The Iran deal was working. As a solution to the problem of Iran developing nuclear weapons, it was actually working quite well.
I really believe, if I learned anything in the military, it was that I was accountable for my actions and I like to be part of the team that kind of brings that back to Washington, D.C. – not just responsibility, but accountability and being ready to lose my job over doing what’s right.
Some of the greatest national security threats we face cannot be defeated or defended by traditional military hardware, but only by greatly enhanced cyberspace warfare, including both offensive cyber-warfare and cyber-security.
I come from a background in the military where everyone had health care. We understood the value of education as a given. You learn a skill, earn a pension and go on to ‘Be all that you can be’… You invest in people. You hold people accountable.
