Kent Conrad famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
-- Kent Conrad

#Needs #Our Society #Computer
We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.
-- Kent Conrad

#Live For Today #Tomorrow #Should
I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.
-- Kent Conrad

#Leader #Support #Way
Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.
-- Kent Conrad

#Powerful #America #Long
The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.
-- Kent Conrad

#People #President #Telling The Truth
Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.
-- Kent Conrad

#Reform #Care #Kind
The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.
-- Kent Conrad

#Government #Issues #Expansion
Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.
-- Kent Conrad

#Agreement #Recipes #Sugar
We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.
-- Kent Conrad

#United States #Reform #Swamps
It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.
-- Kent Conrad

#Children #Mean #Vegetables
Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.
-- Kent Conrad

#Jobs #Wind #Dollars
America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.
-- Kent Conrad

#Years #America #Majority
I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.
-- Kent Conrad

#Cancer #Thinking #Pacs
Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.
-- Kent Conrad

#Country #Jobs #Thinking
Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?
-- Kent Conrad

#Government #Debt #Way
Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.
-- Kent Conrad

#Needs #Social #Security
So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.
-- Kent Conrad

#Together #Filibuster #Justify
The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.
-- Kent Conrad

#War #Reality #Iraq
When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!
-- Kent Conrad

#Cutting #Purpose #Republican

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