Marty Meehan Quotes (35 Quotes)


    Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.

    The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

    Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

    The ink is barely dry, and the Republican leadership is already moving to create new loopholes in the system,

    The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.


    Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front.

    Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

    I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

    It's a tempting response to the problems baseball has right now. It feeds into anger and frustration that fans have about the potential of losing their teams, ... But I don't believe that taking away the antitrust exemption will solve this problem and it could make it worse. I don't see how triggering a antitrust litigation free-for-all... really solves anything.

    We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

    If we don't clean up our corrupt system of financing political campaigns, the people's agenda won't get done, ... Our loophole-ridden campaign finance system puts the special interests at the table, while locking moms, dads and kids out of the room.

    As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

    At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

    Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

    The leadership of both houses of Congress are now operating under a cloud of scandal, impropriety, and the possibility of illegality,

    Make no mistake about it, these cleverly disguised provisions will torpedo key disclosure requirements for so-called 'stealth PACS.'

    Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

    The relationship between Congress and K Street has gotten too close and too cozy, ... The opportunity for reform is now.

    The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

    Malden Mills is providing our military, particularly those soldiers and Marines who are stationed in and around Afghanistan, with the best possible cold-weather gear, ... Moreover, it is clear that Malden Mills will continue to play an important role in the economy of Lawrence, the Merrimack Valley and Massachusetts.

    I support responsible spending, and balancing the budget, but this tax cut and the budget cuts of last month accomplish neither of these goals.

    What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

    It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.

    Middle class families are forced to work more and save less. This means less time to spend with family and less money to put away for retirement.

    Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

    The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

    Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

    We can't get fair decisions made on the merits of any of the issues before us in Congress as long as we have this soft money system,

    The cleanest way to have an election is to have money that doesn't come from special interests, ... In the long run it's a much better system. The system is better served if you put limits on what people can spend.

    Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

    First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

    The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

    Too many of our brave men and women, our heroes, are falling through the cracks,

    For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.

    Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.


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