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Mike Quigley

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Mike Quigley is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 5th congressional district since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Quigley has focused on issues such as environmental protection, healthcare, and government transparency. He has been an advocate for policies aimed at addressing climate change and has worked on initiatives to improve public health and safety in his district. Quigley has also served on various committees, contributing to discussions on national security and budgetary matters.

Quotes by year · 2009–2026495 total · peak 2019 (94)
2009: 3 quotes2010: 3 quotes2011: 68 quotes2012: 26 quotes2013: 33 quotes2014: 24 quotes2015: 14 quotes2016: 9 quotes2017: 28 quotes2018: 24 quotes2019: 94 quotes2020: 16 quotes2021: 36 quotes2022: 18 quotes2023: 72 quotes2024: 22 quotes2026: 5 quotes
Aug 27, 2026

The children I saw today are being put through hell. The Trump administration isn’t going after ‘the worst of the worst.’ They’re deporting kids.

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Aug 15, 2026

Safe, affordable, and accessible rail travel is critical to the success of Chicago and the Illinois region.

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Jun 6, 2026

In communities across the country, including Chicagoland, urban flooding has a unique ability to wreak havoc in our communities, leaving Americans feeling helpless in the aftermath.

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May 27, 2026

I’m proud to reintroduce bipartisan legislation to give cities and towns the resources and tools they’ll need to proactively address flooding challenges.

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Dec 19, 2024

Now what? Yesterday, this body was prepared to pass a bipartisan spending bill to carry us into the new year and the new Congress. It was imperfect, yet it met many of our country's critical needs, especially disaster relief. Then, the…

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Jul 7, 2024

The next opening days of a Trump presidency are going to be a continuation of the last days of the last Trump presidency.

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Jul 7, 2024

I'm worried about not just who controls the White House, but who controls the House and the Senate.

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Jul 4, 2024

The only thing that you can do now to cement that for all time and prevent utter catastrophe is to step down and let someone else do this.

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Jul 1, 2024

We have to be honest with ourselves that it wasn't just a horrible night.

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Apr 29, 2024

I would suggest the 400,000 are all in my district.

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Apr 29, 2024

Members know their district a hell of a lot better than we do.

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Apr 29, 2024

I think it is incumbent upon us to recognize that, and I hope you stay in touch with us on that matter.

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Apr 29, 2024

I appreciate that you brought up resilience in your construction and how important that is going to be.

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Apr 29, 2024

We have to be honest with ourself and recognize that we can't just build the same old infrastructure back.

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Apr 29, 2024

Doing so after the fiscal year begins makes no sense. We need to show the world that we can govern.

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Apr 29, 2024

I believe the Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner, Secretary Buttigieg and Secretary Todman have what it takes to effectively run these agencies.

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Apr 29, 2024

I want to associate myself with the remarks the Chairman made about the tragedy in Baltimore and the families who lost loved ones there.

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Apr 29, 2024

I think we have the right team in place. Very important hearing and well done.

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Apr 29, 2024

For those who did not know, we had a very strong bipartisan partnership during a time where we flipped and did both chair and ranking members of the FSGG subcommittee.

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Apr 9, 2024

I want to follow up. In a hearing we had last week, I talked to the GPO Director, Mr. Halpern, about the implementation of access to congressionally mandated reports, a bill I was proud to sponsor. It has bipartisan support.

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Apr 9, 2024

We have been very pleased with the success so far.

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Apr 9, 2024

I am from Chicago. We can visit them.

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Apr 9, 2024

Chairman, do you want to have them all testify so that we can just ask any of them? Just a suggestion.

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Apr 9, 2024

I guess the short question is, just tell us a little bit about that process.

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