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John Fetterman

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John Karl Fetterman is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Pennsylvania since January 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously held the position of the 34th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania from January 2019 to January 2023. Fetterman is known for his progressive stance on various issues, including education and food security.

Quotes by year · 2009–2026650 total · peak 2023 (186)
2009: 11 quotes2013: 4 quotes2020: 15 quotes2021: 38 quotes2022: 45 quotes2023: 186 quotes2024: 101 quotes2025: 125 quotes2026: 125 quotes
Jun 21, 2025

This was the correct move by @POTUS.

cbsnews.com
Jun 18, 2025

My values haven’t changed.

cnn.com
Jun 18, 2025

This is a 250th anniversary for the Army. I’m not sure why it’s outrageous to have a parade for the Army.

cnn.com
Jun 18, 2025

I’m unapologetically pro-Israel.

cnn.com
Jun 18, 2025

They’ve taken side with the regime that doesn’t have the kind of values and live the kind of ways that we want here in our country.

cnn.com
Jun 18, 2025

Our party, the Democratic Party, has lost that argument.

cnn.com
Jun 18, 2025

You can’t be quiet on those things.

cnn.com
Jun 18, 2025

Parts of my party just wants to turn me into a Colonel Kurtz.

cnn.com
Jun 18, 2025

Israel should keep wiping out Iranian leadership.

truthout.org
Jun 9, 2025

My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.

nbcnews.com
Jun 9, 2025

You can’t defend when people start setting things on fire or they start damaging buildings or going after members of law enforcement. That’s not free speech. That is not peaceful protest.

cnn.com
May 23, 2025

This became the Belichick girlfriend story of politics.

thedailybeast.com
May 23, 2025

I had to make a decision: getting here and sticking my thumb in the door for three seconds for a procedural vote or spend Monday night as a dad-daughter date.

thedailybeast.com
May 23, 2025

The votes I missed were overwhelmingly procedural; they’re even called ‘bed check’ votes.

thedailybeast.com
May 23, 2025

After it’s public that you are getting help for depression, people will weaponize that.

thedailybeast.com
May 23, 2025

It shook me that people are willing to weaponize that I got help.

thedailybeast.com
May 22, 2025

That kind of an evil…whether it was Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan or the Confederacy here in the South, that kind of movement has to be destroyed.

motherjones.com
May 22, 2025

This was only ever about national security and protecting their way of life here. And now this is a radically different deal.

cbsnews.com
May 8, 2025

Considering a vote is a feature of a senator, not a bug.

nbcnews.com
May 8, 2025

My actual doctors and my family affirmed that I’m in good health.

nbcnews.com
May 8, 2025

I’ll always fight for working families in Pennsylvania, but this bill would gut essential services like Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP that Pennsylvanians depend on — all to give tax cuts to the ultra rich.

politico.com
May 7, 2025

One-source hit piece, and it involved maybe two or three and anonymous disgruntled staffers saying just absolute false things.

commondreams.org

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