“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“Here is what you need to know: The 2020 election was not stolen; we won and he lost.”

Political Quotes

On the recordJuly 15, 2009
I do not believe it is within the capacity of this Budget Committee... to make a ten thousand-year budget projection.
Said by
Betty McCollum
Democratic · Minnesota
Source
congress.gov

Editor's note · Context

McCollum expresses doubt about the committee's ability to project costs for nuclear waste storage over thousands of years.

Share

Share on XShare on FacebookEmail this quote

More from Betty McCollum

May 7, 2024

Congratulations. They are finishing. That is great because some students just kind of have to go, not full-time, but three-quarter time or part-time, especially returning adults.

congress.gov
May 12, 2026

Mr. Speaker, last week the Republican Majority in the House of Representatives decided that they know better than the residents of the District of Columbia what their local government needs.

congress.gov
May 12, 2026

Let me be clear--I will not write blank checks to the Department of Defense.

congress.gov
May 7, 2024

We were the first State in 2021 to put together a State task force on it.

congress.gov
View all Betty McCollum quotes

Other voices in this conversation