Chaka Fattah famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Children #Pay #Limits
Democracy derailed is democracy denied.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Democracy
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Children #College #Years
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Senior #African American #Poverty
But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.
-- Chaka Fattah

#War #Cutting #President
The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Cutting #President
There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Years #Bills #Lasts
The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.
-- Chaka Fattah

#People #Stronger #Terrorism
Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.
-- Chaka Fattah

#People #African American #Benefits
I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Retirement #People #Risk
Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Want #Majority #Blame
The Presidents proposed privatization plan would jeopardize that security by cutting guaranteed benefits for future retirees and endangering the benefits of current retirees, people with disabilities, and children who have lost a parent.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Children #Cutting #People
This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Country #Taken #Majority
While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Long #Challenges #Faces
The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
-- Chaka Fattah

#Optimistic #Hopeful

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