Political Quotes

Jim Himes

The Public Record

Jim Himes is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 4th congressional district since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he has focused on issues such as economic growth, healthcare, and national security during his tenure in Congress. Himes has been an advocate for democratic norms and transparency in government, often emphasizing the importance of the intelligence community in national discussions.

Quotes by year · 200920261,066 total · peak 2017 (150)
2009: 5 quotes2010: 21 quotes2011: 46 quotes2012: 43 quotes2013: 53 quotes2014: 35 quotes2015: 36 quotes2016: 35 quotes2017: 150 quotes2018: 97 quotes2019: 105 quotes2020: 34 quotes2021: 84 quotes2022: 59 quotes2023: 94 quotes2024: 28 quotes2025: 91 quotes2026: 50 quotes

★ Featured Quote

August 21, 2026

Lori Jackson and Nicolette Elias should still be alive today.

Jim Himes

Most widely reported

by number of sources
  1. this bill fails spectacularly on all three counts.2 sources2025cbsnews.com
  2. what we need to do right now is generate maximum leverage against Vladimir Putin.2 sources2025cbsnews.com
  3. This bill fails spectacularly on all three counts.2 sources2025cbsnews.com
Jul 19, 2026

What you have is somebody who is so demented that they are either wittingly or unwittingly participating in a coup d’état.

huffpost.com
Jul 19, 2026

What worries me most about that is not that Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are being kicked out of the Senate.

huffpost.com
Jul 19, 2026

Russia’s core objective here is to create chaos.

huffpost.com
Jul 19, 2026

What is devastating is that a United States senator, and maybe more than one United States senator, would effectively tee up a coup d’état, right?

huffpost.com
Jul 17, 2026

There is zero proof that using mail-in ballots has led to a corruption of an election.

ctmirror.org
Jul 17, 2026

The president was setting the context. He was setting the basis for him to turn around at midnight on Election Day and say, ‘I warned you. I warned you back in July that the Chinese were doing X, Y, Z, and the Venezuelans were doing X, Y…

rollcall.com
Jul 17, 2026

America will get the democracy that its citizenry deserves.

npr.org
Jul 17, 2026

The president lied to the American people last night.

npr.org
Jul 17, 2026

Our elections are safe and secure. This has been litigated, especially the 2020 election.

ctmirror.org
Jul 17, 2026

Our elections are not corrupt. They are fair and free, and that is sort of an undebatable fact based on the evidence that is out there.

npr.org
Jul 17, 2026

I try to be nuanced and subtle, but there’s no other word than to say that the president lied to the American public — bald-faced, 180-degrees wrong, easily disprovable lies.

ctmirror.org
Jul 17, 2026

It is very likely that his party is going to lose the majority in the House of Representatives, and it’s probably a 50-50 proposition about where the Senate goes.

ctmirror.org
Jun 24, 2026

In this polarized and angry Congress, we are actually getting something done.

theguardian.com
Jun 12, 2026

Bill Pulte doesn’t get one day with this authority, because we know he’ll abuse it.

huffpost.com
Jun 11, 2026

It’s a machine gun in the hand of a 5-year-old.

rollcall.com
Jun 11, 2026

Very sadly, I think we’re going to test this untested question about whether the program can run on a judicial certification alone.

theintercept.com
Jun 11, 2026

Pulte is a 'uniquely poor choice' to serve even in the acting capacity.

abcnews.com
Jun 11, 2026

I’ve known and respected Jay Clayton for decades. His intelligence, temperament and deep commitment to public service will make him a terrific DNI. Had this nomination been made a week ago, lots of pain might have been avoided.

dailycaller.com
Jun 9, 2026

It's a huge lost opportunity because the Senate bill had actually stronger safeguards than the House bill did.

cbsnews.com
Jun 9, 2026

The right thing to do is for the White House to say tonight that Bill Pulte will not be DNI, and we pass 702 probably with more Democrats and a stronger bipartisan vote.

cbsnews.com
Jun 8, 2026

In the basket of awful appointments he has made, this is probably the worst and most dangerous.

cbsnews.com
Jun 8, 2026

You just could not have come up with worse timing for what is probably the worst appointment into the intelligence community that I've ever seen.

cbsnews.com
Jun 7, 2026

Ukraine is now winning, by any standard, right?

cbsnews.com

Politicians like Jim Himes