Jeff Merkley Quotes

• I wont stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.

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  Jobs, Fighting, Opportunity

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• We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

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  Jobs, Children, Energy

  "Clean Energy is an Easy Choice" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• That's a question best put to Bernie Sanders himself, but I think that he will probably put forward ideas that are related to the corrupting role of Citizens United and Buckley versus Valeo court decisions and the need to restore a by-and-for-the-people republic envisioned in our Constitution instead of the of-, by- and for-the-most-powerful system that we have right now.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  "Lone Senator To Endorse Bernie Sanders Reacts To Clinton Victory". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. June 8, 2016.

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• The economy, virtually all the new income has gone to the top 10 percent, and we need to find those areas where we can actually make a change in that. And that includes enhancing manufacturing jobs in this country, it includes the ability to go to community college for free, it includes the ability to have debt-free higher education, it includes career technical education in our high schools. It also includes taking on the pharmaceutical companies on the extravagant prices that they`re charging for the drugs. Americans need to stay healthy.

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  Country, School, College

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

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  Priorities, Budgets, Ifs

  "Kill the GOP Plan to Kill Jobs" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2011.

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• Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.

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  Research, Causes, Global Warming

  "A Dangerous Proposal" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.

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  Cancer, Rain, Heart

  "A Dangerous Proposal" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

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  Real, Choices, Leaving

  "Words Designed to Kill Reform - This Time It’s Wall Street" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

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  Talking, Two, Way

  "Sen. Jeff Merkley on the filibuster deal: ‘There are two pieces I'm excited about’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• What [Bernie] Sanders has done is he's focused the nation on the fact that these things are not inevitable. They are the result of policies. We can do better to create an economy that works well for working Americans.

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  Done, Facts, Economy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed.

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  Track, Challenges, Needs

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

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  School, Nursing, Degrees

  "A Historic Victory for Health Care Reform" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2009.

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• For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

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  Long, Cards, Credit

  "Elizabeth Warren Is the Right Person for the Job" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2010.

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• We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge resonance of the vision that Senator ["Bernie"] Sanders was putting forward.This has inspired millions of citizens - a style of campaign we've never seen before winning 22 states, extraordinary number of caucuses. Now the challenge is to bring the two halves of the party together.

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  Party, Winning, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get.

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  Fighting, Vote, Arithmetic

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."

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  Thug, Police, Corruption

  Source: www.pbs.org

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