Bart Stupak famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
-- Bart Stupak

#Abortion #Voting #Care
If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.
-- Bart Stupak

#Lakes #Would Be #Locks
Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? Its simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the states budget around.
-- Bart Stupak

#Fighting #Example #Teeth
Ill put my progressive credentials up against anyones.
-- Bart Stupak

#Progressive #Credentials #Ill
We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus theres a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And thats totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
-- Bart Stupak

#Believe #Rights #Law
When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.
-- Bart Stupak

#Language #Drafting #Right To Life

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.
Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.
Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.
Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.
As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of the doctrine you both agree in: and this makes it impossible to imagine whence this congruity between you arises. "To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common understanding altogether irreconcilable.
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

Bart Stupak famous quotes

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