Sherrod Brown Quotes

• It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

  Sherrod Brown

  Hard Work, Able, Poverty

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• I don`t know if this is good politics or bad politics to criticize Trump, but you`ve got to call out, just like people in communities when people say racist things and feel it`s OK now to be a sexist or a racist or a misogynist or a bigot, individuals have to call them out, I have to call them out when I see it. You have to call out this president when he engages, when he hires somebody that makes people even more uncomfortable. I mean, it`s not a difference in policy. People in this country, the fear levels are higher than I can ever remember.

  Sherrod Brown

  Country, Mean, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

  Sherrod Brown

  Rights, Government, Safety

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• First of all, a president of the United States can't unilaterally impose a tariff on another country. It takes an act of Congress, and that would never pass Congress. But that's not the way to fix trade policy, to do unilateral tariffs on other countries.

  Sherrod Brown

  Country, President, Trade

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It`s essential that we build a grassroots movement and we say to Trump to the president-elect, stop, you can`t go over this line again. You`ve got to work to heal and not to continue to fan the flames of racist and xenophobic and anti-Semitic talk, period.

  Sherrod Brown

  Racist, Heal

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

  Sherrod Brown

  Cutting, Doe, Minimum Wage

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• Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.

  Sherrod Brown

  Drug, Red, Company

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• Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

  Sherrod Brown

  Mean, Ohio, News

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• Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

  Sherrod Brown

  Children, Cutting, Compassion

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• The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

  Sherrod Brown

  Phones, Nsa, President

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• I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.

  Sherrod Brown

  Jobs, Promise, Wages

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• There`s a great difference of running for president and being president. I think that deer in the headlights look in President-elect`s Trump face when he was going in and out of a meeting with our president said that, that he does see it`s different now, but he doesn`t seem to think it`s different enough.

  Sherrod Brown

  Running, Thinking, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I remember Reagan`s election, I was pretty devastated. But you didn`t have the fear like this that so many people of color and so many disabled people and gay people and people who aren`t Christians have. And this is just making things worse. And Trump needs to try to heal. And you don`t do things like Trump does this to heal.

  Sherrod Brown

  Christian, Gay, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I absolutely trust Hillary Clinton to stand strong on trade agreements.

  Sherrod Brown

  Strong, Clinton, Trade

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Donald Trump talks a good game on trade, but he's never lived it. He's lined his pockets by outsourcing jobs to low-wage countries, and now he's talking about trade as if he actually means it?

  Sherrod Brown

  Country, Mean, Outsourcing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As president, Clinton will continue to oppose TPP until it dies.

  Sherrod Brown

  President, Clinton, President Clinton

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

  Sherrod Brown

  Party, Government, Republican

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• Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.

  Sherrod Brown

  Community, Relief, Credit

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• We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

  Sherrod Brown

  Building Up, Iraq, People

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• The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

  Sherrod Brown

  Struggle, Average, Income

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• The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

  Sherrod Brown

  Army, Creating, People

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• Clinton is someone who understands trade, who understands we want more of it, but we want it under a different set of rules.

  Sherrod Brown

  Different, Clinton, Trade

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What Clinton wants is to enforce trade policy, she wants to triple the number of trade enforcement officers, which will really matter in trying to level the playing field with South Korea and China and other countries that don't play it straight.

  Sherrod Brown

  Country, Trying, Clinton

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.

  Sherrod Brown

  Optimistic, Thinking, People

  "Moderate Dems coy on immigration" by Kate Nocera, www.politico.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

  Sherrod Brown

  Ohio, Two, Minimum Wage

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