Samuel L. Jackson

Are you aware of the $1.3 trillion cut to Medicaid by the budget offered by the President and the Republicans?

I believe this is morally bankrupt.

You are killing Federal workers.

I do not believe they voted for the President to destroy the very fabric of this Nation.

The recent tax bill law now which increases the deficit by approximately $1.8 trillion, it raises taxes on about 86 million middle-income families, and kicks about 13 million off of their health insurance.

The President tried to coerce the personal allegiance of FBI Director Comey. Failing to secure that, he fired him.

Unlike in a dictatorship, autocracy, or monarchy, where the king is law, in a constitutional democracy, such as the United States, the law is king.

What we have done over the last 30 years is we have come up with so many laws, gang enhancements, to incarcerate a lot of people, and I don't think that we've necessarily spent much time looking at the root causes as to why people get…

I was very excited to hear about this hearing because to me it signaled what I hope is an indication that we actually will look back at history over the last couple of decades and consider doing something differently.

We lock people up. They come home. And what we don't realize is that then we have communities that have an overconcentration of people who go in and out of prison, which actually kind continues the cycle of violence.

My level of frustration is high because it is long overdue for holistic criminal justice reform.

Mr. Blanco said that juveniles are used, are being used as pawns to carry out the bad deeds of gang leaders.

As a ranking member of the crime subcommittee, I am committed to finding ways to work collaboratively with the chairman, my colleagues, and experts like yourselves in order to move forward effectively on juvenile justice reform.

I want to dedicate this hearing to Kalief Browder who learned how to commit suicide, according to this article, on Rikers Island.

We must not allow cuts or elimination of youth programs, as this will exacerbate the problems we are trying mightily to remedy through reform.

It is time for all of us to wake up and say, 'No more.' No to the policies that are robbing them of their youth by throwing them away into the adult penal institutions.

I believe that there is but one child in the Federal system, and that is one too many if there is one child.

What role of oversight do you believe the Congress of the United States, particularly, that is, in fact, the peoples' representatives, should engage with this agreement?

Well, the President also promised he wouldn't cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and he is cutting them.

If you don't fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition.

I think that people back home understand that if you flatline budgets for things like Medicare and Medicaid...

Your budget is full the tricks and trickery. It does not work. No economist will approve your budget in terms of it working. There will not be a 3 percent growth because the working population is expired. This is a betrayal of the American…

I know diabetes. It is my in family and it is in my community and it particularly impacts African Americans. And we will be devastated by this budget along with American working families.

I just met with the State of Texas, they are begging for their Medicaid so they can provide for the poor in their State.

Are you saying that you support a healthcare plan that makes distinctions between the deserving ill and the undeserving ill in deciding who can get Federal support and how much?