Political Quotes

Bill Nelson

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Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.

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Jul 31, 2018

to accommodate the Senator from Utah, I will not make my remarks first, but just by way of introduction to say that tonight at midnight American national security is going to be irreversibly weakened by the actions of President Trump and…

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Jul 31, 2018

the Senator is basing that on First Amendment rights. There are many limits on our First Amendment rights of speech. You cannot say ``fire'' in a crowded theater. Why in the world would you assert First Amendment rights to publish…

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Jul 31, 2018

I think it may, indeed, be a Federal law that every visitor and particularly every child that comes to Washington must go to the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.

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Jul 31, 2018

30 percent of the NASA budget is here, and they are operating 60 missions on 80 spacecraft.

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Jul 31, 2018

It is going to be a real challenge for us to protect human life, going all the way to Mars.

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Jul 30, 2018

Each day, around the world, billions of dollars in digital commerce is conducted online.

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Jul 25, 2018

Let me be blunt about this: Somebody could come into this building--and sit in this hearing room--and have a gun, and we wouldn't know about it.

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Jul 25, 2018

I second the comments of the Chairman about the Gulf Coast train service that was suspended after Hurricane Katrina.

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Jul 25, 2018

I plead for the administration to reverse its decision.

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Jul 25, 2018

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Plastic Guns

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Jul 25, 2018

if we didn't have enough to worry about, as the Presiding Officer and this Senator have to worry about cyber security in our capacity on the Armed Services Committee; if we didn't have enough to worry about, with all that is happening…

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Jul 25, 2018

If this settlement is allowed to go through, we will see a fundamental shift in American safety and security.

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