Political Quotes

Abby Finkenauer

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Quotes by year · 2019202295 total · peak 2019 (60)
2019: 60 quotes2020: 19 quotes2021: 13 quotes2022: 3 quotes
Apr 19, 2022

The guy has been in D.C. for 47 years. And he has forgotten where he comes from and who he is supposed to fight for.

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Apr 19, 2022

It is about having somebody who is going to step up for the health care, who is going to fight for lower prescription drug prices, who is actually going to have the backs of their family again.

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Oct 8, 2021

Chuck Grassley has gone to Washington, D.C. for nearly five decades and has become the Washington politician that Donald Trump has told all his supporters to hate over these years.

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Oct 8, 2021

They are afraid. They know they`re vulnerable and they`re selling essentially democracy down the line because of the fact that they cannot stand up to Donald Trump.

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Oct 8, 2021

This guy, who told his supporters on January 6th to march to the Capitol while they were wearing Trump hats, Trump T-shirts, and they beat our Capitol police officers with Trump flags and American flags. And Chuck Grassley saw that. He saw…

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Aug 13, 2021

I can tell you folks are happy that we got a president who actually did what he said he was going to do. I mean, we heard Trump go around our state for years and talk about an infrastructure package - never did it. And here, Joe Biden…

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Aug 13, 2021

You do not get to say those words on the floor of the U.S. Senate, defend a president who was trying to stay in office after he lost an election and expect to get reelected in a state like Iowa.

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Aug 13, 2021

We will defeat him. Because again, you do not get to talk about democracy in the way that he has, you do not get to subvert it the way that he has, and at the same time, decide that you’re just going to keep getting reelected.

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Aug 13, 2021

He’s not the guy I remember watching growing up. I grew up in Iowa, where we had Democrat, Tom Harkin, we had Republican Chuck Grassley, and they’d go off to Washington and into the U.S. Senate. And you know, I wouldn’t agree with what…

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Jul 21, 2021

I'm tired of having politicians in D.C. who just read about working families, study them, but haven't actually listed it.

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Jul 21, 2021

this election is so much bigger than Senator Grassley. Again, it's about our democracy. It's about making sure that we have folks who believe in the truth and are going to stand up and defend it.

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Jul 21, 2021

they don't get to keep lying, they don't get to keep pushing misinformation in our state and our country and not have us push back.

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Jul 21, 2021

It's politicians like Senator Grassley and Mitch McConnell who should know better but are so obsessed with power that they oppose anything that moves us forward. Since the Capitol was attacked, they've turned their backs on democracy and…

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Jul 21, 2021

We saw Senator Mitt Romney stand up when there was misinformation. We saw Liz Cheney do the same.

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Jul 21, 2021

Because Iowa is my home and this is our country, and both are worth fighting for. There's so much work to do both for Iowa and our democracy. When 1/6 happened, it changed America and it changed me.

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Sep 14, 2020

I thank Chairwoman Velazquez for yielding. It is an honor to get to serve on the Committee on Small Business with her, and I appreciate her support as we dive into these issues that are obviously of big importance to me and to my State of…

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Jul 30, 2020

I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 749, line 7, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $12,000,000)''. Page 780, line 11…

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Jul 16, 2020

Communities like mine, quite frankly, were left behind because we have the highest concentration of community-based financial institutions.

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Jul 1, 2020

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I am proud to stand here today as a Congresswoman from Iowa's First Congressional District, but even more proud to stand here today as a daughter of a retired union pipe fitter/welder. And you see I…

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Jun 30, 2020

I thank Chairman DeFazio for yielding. It is an honor to serve on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and bring the needs of rural America to the committee and be able to work on those needs in a bipartisan way. I am proud to…

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Mar 10, 2020

As the Congresswoman from Iowa's 1st Congressional District, I know firsthand that for our small businesses, the ability to access new markets and export goods promotes economic successes at home and in our communities.

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Mar 9, 2020

my biggest concern is, obviously, the health and safety of my constituents and Iowans and folks across the country.

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Mar 5, 2020

It is an honor to represent the great State of Iowa and the First Congressional District. We have been getting a lot of great things done here in the House, working across the aisle and moving a lot of bipartisan bills forward since I got…

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Feb 25, 2020

I was shocked to see the Trump Administration decided to slash this budget and funding for fiscal year 2021.

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