Political Quotes

J.B. Pritzker

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J.B. Pritzker is the 43rd Governor of Illinois, having taken office on January 14, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Pritzker has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and economic development during his tenure. He has been an advocate for progressive taxation and has worked to increase funding for public schools and social services. Pritzker's administration has also been marked by efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impacts on the state.

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Feb 28, 2022

We focused many of our resources precisely on those communities, not just in the vaccination and other healthcare recovery efforts.

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Feb 9, 2022

We`re seeing a trajectory of those hospitalizations. We`ve come from 7300 more than that, down to under 2500 just in the last four weeks.

msnbc.com
Dec 30, 2021

Omicron and delta are coming to your party. So you need to think twice about how many people will be gathered together.

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Aug 4, 2021

Because the vaccine has not yet been approved for children under 12, because there are many people who are reluctant across some of the districts to adopt the CDC guidance effective immediately all P-12 Schools and daycares in Illinois…

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Dec 17, 2020

They have not provided us with any information, the federal government. You know, we get to see what the order book can look like for us for the coming week, and they haven't given us any explanation of why those numbers are smaller than…

msnbc.com
Nov 11, 2020

We're running out of time, and we're running out of options. Our growth in new cases is now exponential. The numbers don't lie. If things don't take a turn in the coming days, we will quickly reach the point when some form of mandatory…

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Jul 7, 2020

The Federal Government wasn't leading. We were.

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Jul 7, 2020

Please provide us the kind of guidance that will help us do that.

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Jul 7, 2020

I hate to say that I have often found the CDC as being muzzled along the way here.

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Jul 7, 2020

We are competing against every other State in the United States, States that have more resources than we do, countries that have more resources than we do, with no help from the Federal Government.

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Jul 7, 2020

I wish that we could have a Federal Government that was our partner in this endeavor.

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Jul 7, 2020

We need a National masking mandate.

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Apr 2, 2020

there's no federal plan for this, so every state is on their own. As I've said, it's a Wild West of here.

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Mar 19, 2020

To avoid the loss of potentially tens of thousands of lives, we must enact an immediate stay-at-home order for the State of Illinois.

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Sep 23, 2019

We cannot stand idly by and watch the high-tech e-cigarette erase the progress against youth smoking.

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Jul 9, 2019

For months, our state has been battling historic flooding, causing untold damage to homes, businesses, and farms across Illinois.

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