Political Quotes

Ralph Lee Abraham

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Quotes by year · 19952022278 total · peak 1997 (53)
1995: 19 quotes1996: 31 quotes1997: 53 quotes1998: 32 quotes1999: 38 quotes2000: 3 quotes2015: 38 quotes2016: 32 quotes2017: 18 quotes2018: 8 quotes2019: 5 quotes2022: 1 quote

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  1. I rise to urge my colleagues' support for the Collegiate Learning and Student Savings, or ``CLASS,'' Act. This legislation will help Americans as they seek to secure, for themselves and for their children, the increased opportunity and earnings potential available only to college graduates in this country. Mr. President, America is the land of opportunity. But that opportunity comes at a price. More and more that price comes in the form of an increasing cost of a college education. College graduates on average earn 40 percent more than do those who have not graduated from college. But the increased opportunity college provides keeps getting more and more expensive. College costs have risen dramatically--5 to 6 percent every year over the past decade. According to the College Board, the average annual cost for tuition, room and board at a public university is now $7,472. At a private college the cost is a whopping $19,213 per year. If costs continue rising as they have been, a four-year college education will cost $75,000 at a public university and $250,000 at a private college by the time the average newborn begins attending in 2016. Costs like these can send families deeply into debt. American families have already accrued more college debt in the 1990's than during the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's combined.3 sources1999govinfo.gov
  2. I rise to join my colleagues Senators Grams and Roth in introducing S. 3, the Tax Cut for All Americans Act. This legislation will provide every American taxpayer with substantial tax relief by cutting all income tax rates 10 percent across the board, effective January first of this year. American working families need this tax cut, Mr. President. They are now taxed at a higher rate than at any time since World War II. Not even at the height of the Vietnam War have the American people seen such a large part of their pay taken away from them in the form of taxes. Since the current Administration came into office in 1993, federal taxes have gone up by over 35 percent, or over $600 billion. The nonpartisan Tax Foundation recently told us what these sky-high taxes mean to the typical American family. First, they mean that the typical family now pays more in total taxes than it spends on food, clothing and shelter combined--spending more than 38 percent on taxes and only 28 percent on food, clothing and housing. Second, the typical American now works nearly three hours out of an eight hour day just to pay taxes. That American works from January 1 to May 10, the latest day ever, before he or she stops working for the government and starts working for him or herself. Washington currently takes 21 percent of the national income in taxes. That's $6,810 for every man, woman and child in this country. Mr. President, that is simply too much.3 sources1999govinfo.gov
  3. the amendment I have proposed with my esteemed colleague from Kentucky would extend the joint liability reforms of S. 565 to all cases whose subject matter affects interstate commerce. This extension is necessary, in our view, to realize the basic goals of the bill. In its traditional form, the doctrine of joint liability allows the plaintiff to collect the entire amount of a judgment from any defendant found to be at least partially responsible for the plaintiff's damages. Thus, for example, a defendant found to be 1 percent responsible for the plaintiff's damages could be forced to pay 100 percent of the plaintiff's judgment. This example is not merely theoretical. In the case of Walt Disney World versus Wood, the plaintiff sought recovery of damages resulting from a collision between her go-kart and another driven by her fiancee. The jury found the plaintiff 14 percent responsible, and her fiancee 85 percent responsible, for the plaintiff's damages. Thus, between them, the plaintiff and her fiancee were 99 percent responsible for her damages. Unfortunately for Disney, however, the jury found it 1 percent responsible for the plaintiff's damages and, under the doctrine of joint liability, Disney was forced to pay 86 percent of the plaintiff's judgment. The Disney case underscores the fact that unreformed joint liability forces defendants to pay judgments on the basis of their resources, not their responsibility.2 sources1995govinfo.gov
  4. in March of this year, over 200 schoolchildren in my State contracted the hepatitis A virus from food served by the school lunch program. As news of the outbreak began to pour in, the Michigan Department of Community Health and the Centers for Disease Control went into action to determine the cause. They soon found the culprit: Frozen strawberries sold to the school lunch program by a San Diego company named Andrews and Williamson. Investigators also discovered that some of the strawberries sold to the school lunch program had been illegally certified as domestically grown when, in fact, they had been grown in Mexico. There does not currently exist a method for testing strawberries for the hepatitis A virus. Thus, we may never know whether the strawberries brought in from Mexico were the source of this pathogen. Given the growing conditions that USDA investigators found at the farm, however, the likelihood is strong. And one thing we do know, Mr. President, is that these strawberries should never have been served in the school lunch program in the first place.2 sources1997govinfo.gov
Apr 29, 2019

I wonder, Madam Chair, what it says about our military medical system that it is so bad that we have to actually shield it, that it could cost multiple billions of dollars to fully allow tort claims, you know, which I think should scare us…

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Apr 29, 2019

The lack of moral prioritization by this administration is galling.

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Apr 29, 2019

I understand the current interpretation of the law is that military malpractice is an incident to military service. I mean, that shocks me, as a combat infantry Marine.

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Apr 1, 2019

the solutions coming out of the White House are making it worse, not better

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Mar 26, 2019

Extreme weather events and the shifting of tidal patterns and coastlines are impacting communities throughout the Indo-Pacific region.

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Sep 12, 2018

So if the EPA imposes these regulations that eliminate the cost-competitive option like these glider kits, is it safe to assume that the price for new trucks would go up?

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Sep 12, 2018

For me, this is a jobs issue. We should not allow the heavy hand of the Federal Government to come down and crush an entire industry.

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Sep 12, 2018

I'm a physician by trade, and I was taught very early in medical school when you review a scientific article to look at the author, whether there's bias or not, and look at the sample size.

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Jun 26, 2018

It would have been substantially more helpful for DHS to have been present today, to be part of the dialogue, inform the American public, and answer questions about their work in this area.

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Jun 26, 2018

The purpose of today's hearing is to examine the threats that IMSI catchers and other similar technologies pose to mobile security and user privacy.

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May 7, 2018

I think this is world-changing technology that we're dealing with.

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Feb 13, 2018

I consider our farmers and ranchers our thin green line, and I think that maybe our Achilles' heel in this nation as far as our national security is concerned is if we have a breach in our food security.

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Jan 17, 2018

When we are told and we understand that in last year, 2016, I mean, 2017, that we had almost four times the number of training accidents as we did have deaths in combat, there is something wrong there.

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Oct 2, 2017

If there is going to be any change in the status of our participation in JCPOA especially when--if it involves the interpretation of what we, in Congress, pass in terms of sanctions against Iran outside the JCPOA, will you come back and…

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Jul 12, 2017

knowledge is power and knowledge is money in the farming community.

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Jun 14, 2017

Over the last few years, we've seen an alarming increase in the number and intensity of our cyber-attacks.

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Apr 26, 2017

Even the FAA doesn't know really what to do with all the drones. There are more drones on the civilian side now than there are aircraft flying.

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Apr 25, 2017

Again, it all comes down to accountability. And when you have a budget, Mr. Halvorsen, of $37 billion or whatever and you can't write a check for something that you see, it is just idiotcracy at its finest.

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Apr 4, 2017

as important as all those are, I think we are all smart enough to understand that that makes no difference if we don't have a country and national security.

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Feb 27, 2017

The commodity title, specifically, Price Loss Coverage, is the cornerstone of our safety net because of its ability to provide certainty over multiple years for farmers.

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Feb 27, 2017

Those kind of proposals would have a disastrous impact on rural communities in Indian Country.

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Feb 27, 2017

I am an advocate of President Trump's America First policy.

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Jan 9, 2017

It has needlessly injected partisanship into our Nation's space program, yet again.

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Jan 9, 2017

Representative Abraham's bill serves an important purpose and expands our ability to protect Americans from cybersecurity attacks.

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