Tom Udall famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.
-- Tom Udall

#Care #Essentials #Veteran
New Mexico is full of brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to service.
-- Tom Udall

#Men #Brave #Mexico
I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.
-- Tom Udall

#Mean #Eight #Pieces
I will never forget the debt we owe to those who have fought to keep America safe.
-- Tom Udall

#America #Debt #Safe
A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.
-- Tom Udall

#Able #Majority #Congress
It's happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there's an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.
-- Tom Udall

#Zero #Phones #Bills
With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.
-- Tom Udall

#Sacrifice #Technology #Airports
Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.
-- Tom Udall

#Football #Athlete #Decision
It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it, that you - when you became exhausted you would have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster.
-- Tom Udall

#Ideas #Dimensions #Exhausted
As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.
-- Tom Udall

#Learning #Issues #Nuclear
They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.
-- Tom Udall

#Moving Forward #Trying #Months
Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.
-- Tom Udall

#Men #Globes
I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.
-- Tom Udall

#War #Military #Two
Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.
-- Tom Udall

#Government #Trying #Bombs
Balancing our energy portfolio is a real chance to reduce energy bills, revitalize rural America, slow global warming and strengthen our energy security.
-- Tom Udall

#Real #America #Bills
It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.
-- Tom Udall

#Mean #Years #Nuclear Waste
It's very, very difficult I think for us to have a transparent debate about secret programs approved by a secret court issuing secret court orders based on secret interpretations of the law.
-- Tom Udall

#Thinking #Order #Law
Well the appeals happening because we believe the certification process uh, hasn't worked out the way it should, that there hasn't been substantial evidence to support their certification.
-- Tom Udall

#Believe #Support #Way
Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.
-- Tom Udall

#School #Law #Weapons
The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.
-- Tom Udall

#Sports #Horse #Animal
The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.
-- Tom Udall

#People #Broken #Way

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