Top 66 Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes

Illinois is home to a disproportionate share of Dreamers and would suffer a significant economic blow should they be compelled to leave.

Ultimately, much of the dysfunction in Congress is due to the impact of big money, which drowns out the voices of working families and leads to the special treatment of special interests.

Our country’s history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that ‘all men are created equal’ for the members of our ever-expanding national family: women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, gays and lesbians, the disabled, immigrants, and refugees.

Mail in our country serves as an economic engine.

Americans want Washington to put aside political differences, find common ground, and start producing real economic solutions for the middle class.

As a party, Democrats must focus on the pocketbook issues that our constituents care about every day when they wake up to go to work, drop off their kids at school, and tuck them into bed at night.

There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.

The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It’s a national security priority. It’s not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we’ll fall behind the rest of the world.

America works best when we work together to expand the circle of inclusion.

Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.

When you encounter some form of discrimination or maybe even worse, I urge you to alert others. Regardless of how small the incident is, it has to be brought to the attention of people like me and also the law enforcement agencies.

It is time to investigate Russian interference in our democracy and to address it in a manner that will help restore Americans’ trust in their government.

I am hopeful that both India and U.S.A. would be able to expand their counter-terror partnership through wider intelligence sharing and effective coordination.

I have strong differences with Mr. Trump on a woman’s right to choose and what kind of justices belong on the Supreme Court.

Before I was elected to Congress, I helped to create the public corruption unit in the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Unfortunately, business was good. Among the usual suspects were government contracts steered to insiders – leaving Illinois taxpayers holding the bag.

When a foreign adversary knows that an American official has deceived or withheld vital information from our government, it creates a fundamental counterintelligence vulnerability that can render that official irreparably compromised.

Everyone agrees that our immigration system is broken. Building a wall with Mexico isn’t going to fix it.

As the president of a cutting-edge research and development firm, I deal with the development of solutions to long-term national security and renewable energy problems every day and will bring this same perspective to Congress.

In the past, leaders of both parties have been able to reach across the partisan divide. They succeeded by retaining their own humanity and recognizing the same in their political opponents.

Following well-established national security screening procedures and accurately informing Congress about them is not a joke or a political game. It is essential to guaranteeing that our national secrets are protected and to preventing possible blackmailing of key administration officials.

We need to cut unnecessary weapons programs like the F-35 fighter plane that cost trillions of dollars and don’t even work.

Trumpcare would be devastating for millions of American families, but perhaps no one will bear the brunt of its cruelty more than older Americans.

There’s another important reason not to send the Dreamers packing: they are essential to preserving the social insurance programs on which older Americans rely.

Even people who have successfully obtained a visa are sometimes being turned back at the airport. Such incidents have never happened in the past but are increasing now because even low level officers of the border patrol department are being entrusted with too much discretion power on how they execute the laws.

So many of our businesses rely on green card holders – how are we supposed to attract these people if they think they’ll be detained at the airport if they go abroad for a wedding or just to show their baby to relatives?

I’m an immigrant. I came here when I was 3 months old.

All in all, Trumpcare is a bad plan for older Americans.

Our best path to economic growth and global competitiveness is to invest in our people – not to provide huge new tax breaks to special interests.

Every night at dinner, my father would say something about the greatness of the United States – and tell us to make sure the government is there for the next people who come along and need it.

I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.

Partisan politics is not my passion.

Each Dreamer in our country is more than a mere statistic; he or she is a proud American in everything but official documentation.

Illinois is large, but we do not always receive our fair share of federal resources because our leadership is often divided. When we all row together, good things happen.

We must have the strictest adherence to security procedures to protect against compromise by hostile foreign powers.

Losing access to quality and comprehensive coverage, including for prescription drugs, would be devastating to older Americans.

My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.

Donald Trump will become president even after losing the popular vote in our November elections by a wide margin. To govern effectively, he must appeal to a broader base than what he campaigned on and avoid the divisive rhetoric that alienated so many Americans.

A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.

The fact that Barack Hussein Obama became president is historic, to say the least. Actually, to become U.S. senator, that was historic, and then what he did later on – that’s what inspired me to think about running for office.

Congress increasingly represents the diversity of America.

My parents climbed their way to the middle class.

In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.

I think that what is really important is that, at the grassroots level, Indian-Americans really engage in the political process. That means voting and volunteering and assisting candidates who support the agenda that is friendly to their values.

One of the positives of the Illinois delegation is the congressmen and women work together on issues of local concern in a lot of different ways.

As an immigrant, I am grateful for the tremendous opportunities that this great nation has afforded me and my family. I am also aware of the ongoing challenges that immigrants confront, and understand that respecting law and borders is essential for keeping America strong.

We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.

Working with a Republican co-sponsor, Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, I introduced a bill to strengthen our nation’s career and technical education programs and more closely align them with the needs of local businesses and industries.

I hope that President-elect Trump will drop his unrealistic campaign pledge to deport millions of immigrants who’ve made their lives in this country and contribute to our country.

The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.

Whenever the Congress represents the increasing diversity of the United States, that’s a good thing.

One of the best programs that the federal government sponsors is the Small Business Innovation Research program, in which more than 2.5 percent of federal research and development funding at the largest agencies goes directly to small businesses.

If I am elected to Congress, I plan to introduce legislation tying Congressional pay to performance.

I’ve led programs that have helped thousands of individuals, small businesses, veterans, the disabled, farmers get low-interest loans to prosper.

Pocketbook and economic issues is pretty much all I campaigned on.