John Yarmuth

the goal of this government should be to lift as many people out of poverty as possible.

But we can have it as a goal for this country to improve the family circumstance in such a way that we can help our young people get that education, make those decisions that break, if you will, that cycle of poverty.

A moral economy would save taxpayers billions of dollars.

the more we can do to lift people out of poverty, the better our budgetary future will look.

One of the things that the civil rights movement, I think, taught us was that individual morality is not enough.

I liked what my colleague, Bill Johnson, said at the very beginning about the importance of the father in the household.

We have the greatest disparity between the wealthiest Americans and everybody else that we have ever had.

Of course, I want to pay a special greeting to Reverend Barber. His work as the leader of the Moral Monday, the inspiration and the leader of the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina, has as moved our state.

I don't think there is any greater need in this country right now for our long-term prospects than early childhood education.

Over-regulating housing markets, hampering development, that causes rents to rise.

I always say government is the way we recognize our--we organize our responsibilities to each other.

Occupational licensing requirements... can be terribly hard and burdensome on the poor.

It is the government's obligation to make sure we do everything we can to make sure they have a decent standard of living.

The way we can continue to honor the commitment and the sacrifice and the hardships suffered by well over a million people who have died in defense of their country, the way we honor them is to make sure that we protect the principles…

We have already broken our climate; we don't need to break our economy to fix it.

We must plan for the consequences of a changing climate if we are to avoid future catastrophe.

Just a little bit of prevention would go such a long way towards cost savings.

We must rejoin our global partners in tackling the threat of climate change, and commit to substantial reductions in carbon pollution.

There are hundreds of proposals to deal with climate change, and I think a lot of them are very meritorious.

The Trump Administration always prefers political fantasy to science and scientific fact.

Oh, the dastardly Republicans, who bury their head in the sand on energy.

Of course, willful ignorance of climate change is not a laughing matter.

I hope today's hearing will make clear that we must rejoin our global partners in tackling the threat of climate change.

I was one of the first Members of Congress to sign on to the Green New Deal as a signal to what a priority it must be for America to lead the world in addressing climate change.

Climate change is an environmental issue, it is a public health issue, it is a national security issue.