Zitat des Tages von Bill Foster:
Immigrants greatly contribute to our country's economic prosperity.
As someone who started a small business from scratch, I know how important it is for families and for communities to have strong job creation.
Measles may not spread as fast as erroneous sound bites and tweets, but they both have the potential to cause a great amount of damage.
Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax returns.
As a businessman, I know that businesses need certainty.
One of the big concerns is the increasing disrespect for the scientific method and for policies that aren't based on facts and evidence.
There's no way I can run a nonpartisan organization the same time I am running for Congress.
I don't want to do anything that capitalizes personally on the fact that I've been in public service.
History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.
We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world.
I really believe in U.S. manufacturing and U.S. exports, but we have to have a level playing field.
Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what's true but what he can convince a jury is true.
Those who promote hatred, bigotry, and fear do not represent America and do not represent us.
As we continue to work to pass comprehensive immigration reform, we must take action to stop these predators who are exploiting immigrants attempting to play by the rules.
As we face tough decisions in Washington, we must never forget our responsibility to protect Medicare and preserve it for future generations.
The freedoms and prosperity we enjoy in America are thanks to the brave men and women who have served in our armed forces.
If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation.
I support marriage equality and oppose legislation that defines marriage as only being between a man and a woman.
I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.
I believe we need a balanced, bipartisan approach to debt reduction that includes a combination of spending cuts, investments in economic growth, and simplification of the tax code that closes corporate loopholes that incentivize companies to ship jobs overseas.
My dad spent most of the '50s and early '60s actually acting as sort of an advance man for the Justice Department, as a civil rights lawyer. So it was actually reading his papers after he passed away a few years ago that first started me thinking about this... What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man?
My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.
The idea of ensuring that federal research dollars should be reasonably spread around is an arguably useful goal. But it should be done per person, not per state.
Alan Greenspan is going to go down in history as one of the worst Federal Reserve chairmen ever.
Spend a while listening to people in your district to make sure you understand how they are served well in government and how they could be served better.
