Ron Wyden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.
-- Ron Wyden

#Government #People #Patriot
For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.
-- Ron Wyden

#Dream #Believe #Nba
Trade wars arent started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another countrys industries.
-- Ron Wyden

#Country #War #Independent
The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.
-- Ron Wyden

#Way #World #Internet
The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately
-- Ron Wyden

#President #Surveillance #Authority
You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.
-- Ron Wyden

#Surveillance State #Law #Liberty
I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill.
-- Ron Wyden

#Strong #Thinking #Should Have
The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.
-- Ron Wyden

#Law #Ethics #Morse Code
Americans don't want to hear the answers are privileged and off limits or they can't be provided in public or it would be inappropriate for witnesses to tell us what they know. We are talking about an attack on our democratic institutions and stonewalling of any kind is unacceptable. General Jeff Sessions acknowledged that there is no legal basis for this stonewalling.
-- Ron Wyden

#Kind #Inappropriate #Democratic
Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.
-- Ron Wyden

#America #Broken #Silence
Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.
-- Ron Wyden

#Two Sides #Care #Fixing
I think I've got the best job around.
-- Ron Wyden

#Jobs #Thinking #Best Job
Right at the heart of the Affordable Care Act is the ban on insurance companies discriminating against people with a pre-existing condition. And this part of the Affordable Care Act makes sure that health care is not just for the healthy and wealthy.
-- Ron Wyden

#Heart #People #Healthy
Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.
-- Ron Wyden

#Sacrifice #States #National Guard
The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.
-- Ron Wyden

#Regret #Unique #Technology
If we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.
-- Ron Wyden

#Games #Care #Blame
How can it be, in a country as strong and rich as this one, that tens of thousands of Americans who need legal representation are turned away every year because their government won't support the very program designed to help them?
-- Ron Wyden

#Country #Strong #Government
This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
-- Ron Wyden

#House #Swamps #Months
For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.
-- Ron Wyden

#Men #Storm #Shields
I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.
-- Ron Wyden

#Life #Country #Risk
The KXL pipeline would make it easy and cost effective for oil producers in Canada to transport oil to the Gulf of Mexico where it could be shipped to customers - not just in the United States - but around the world.
-- Ron Wyden

#Oil #Cost #Mexico
As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.
-- Ron Wyden

#Oregon #Innovation #Use
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.
-- Ron Wyden

#Law #Track #Enforcement

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