Jackie Speier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova.
-- Jackie Speier

#Country #Office #United States
Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.
-- Jackie Speier

#Abortion #Planning #Parenthood
Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
-- Jackie Speier

#Privacy
If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.
-- Jackie Speier

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What a gun does to a person who survives is devastating as well. Whether it`s the surgeries, I had over ten, the years of physical therapy, the emotional and physical scars that you endure and have to come to grips with the fact that you are different.
-- Jackie Speier

#Gun #Emotional #Years
Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.
-- Jackie Speier

#School #Church #Safe

God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!
We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.
When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.
Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.
In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.

Jackie Speier famous quotes

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