Debbie Wasserman Schultz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Cancer #Risk #Needs
Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Diversity #Judging #Needs
I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Cancer #Would Be #Chance
With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Opportunity #Florida #Land
...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply strangled by extremism. There is no more establishment, or middle or moderate wing. You've got the Steve King wing of the Republican Party today, who raised the specter of impeachment this weekend.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Country #Kings #Children
These people are out of control. It's stunning.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#People #Immigration #Stunning
We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Law #Dumb #Dumb Liberal
Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Tables #Chaos #Compromise
Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Running #Recovery #President
Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Party #Tea #Republican
Women could get it done...That's why we need more women to run so we have more women in power to make decisions.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Running #Decision #Needs
Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party,
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Party #House #Tea
This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#House #Important #Addresses
President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won't admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Senior #Average #Years
Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Cancer #Heart #Disease
To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Taken #Florida #Environmental
And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Cancer #America #Survivor
The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Jobs #Loss #Class
People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Cancer #Past #People
We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Pain #Sacrifice #Order
We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Years #People #Needs
At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Mistake #Independent #Law
Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Law #Obamacare #President
When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Obamacare #President #Reform

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