Political Quotes

Pat Toomey

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Patrick Toomey is a former United States Senator from Pennsylvania, serving from 2011 to 2022. A member of the Republican Party, Toomey was known for his focus on fiscal conservatism, economic growth, and limited government. During his tenure, he served on several Senate committees, including the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, where he was involved in financial regulation and economic policy discussions.

Quotes by year · 2001–20221,688 total · peak 2021 (502)
2001: 9 quotes2002: 6 quotes2003: 1 quote2004: 7 quotes2006: 2 quotes2009: 1 quote2010: 2 quotes2011: 219 quotes2012: 82 quotes2013: 114 quotes2014: 98 quotes2015: 191 quotes2016: 106 quotes2017: 112 quotes2018: 113 quotes2020: 4 quotes2021: 502 quotes2022: 119 quotes
Sep 20, 2021

Abusing the powers of our financial regulators to do it is a bad way to do it, in my view.

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Sep 20, 2021

I fear that is because the bill is going to include many very flawed policies that will harm economic growth and jobs and invade the privacy of Americans.

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Sep 20, 2021

I fear that's because the bill is going to include many flawed policies that will harm economic growth and jobs while invading the privacy of Americans.

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Sep 20, 2021

I think it is very important that we work with our allies in doing that.

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Aug 18, 2021

I continue to remain deeply skeptical of EX-IM and its role in the global economy.

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Aug 18, 2021

Taxpayers ultimately bear the consequences of undue risk taking at the Bank.

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Aug 18, 2021

Let's be clear: EX-IM wins business by either systemically underpricing risk that private markets would otherwise absorb.

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Aug 4, 2021

She suggested in a letter that she wrote--not a tweet or a retweet--that police violence stems from 'flawed and biased systems that require structural change.'

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Aug 4, 2021

These views are so outside the political mainstream that they disqualify him from holding a senior leadership position at HUD.

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Aug 4, 2021

Let's consider Solomon Greene. He's repeatedly made troubling statements denigrating the police and advocating for the defunding of the police.

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Aug 4, 2021

He has repeatedly made troubling statements denigrating the police and advocating for the defunding of the police.

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Aug 4, 2021

Recapturing funding from the police sure sounds like defunding the police to me.

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Aug 4, 2021

These Biden nominees have indicated a hostility to the policy, they have subscribed to the theory that the police are racists.

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Aug 4, 2021

Ms. Gordon, among other things, retweeted a post that described police officers as 'the people killing us.'

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Aug 4, 2021

Too many families of color live in neighborhoods endangered by overpolicing.

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Aug 4, 2021

I have repeatedly supported many nominees who had the necessary experience, the temperament, and the policy views.

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Aug 4, 2021

I think it is clear that Americans of all races overwhelmingly want the police in their communities to protect them.

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Aug 4, 2021

Imagine if the money used to pay the salaries of police officers... can be used to fund plans that residents designed to keep themselves safe.

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Aug 2, 2021

Recently, the Biden administration suggested that excessive bank consolidation has made the markets for financial services uncompetitive.

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Aug 2, 2021

I am now concerned that the Biden administration is seeking to use financial regulation to advance social goals that are unrelated to banking.

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Aug 2, 2021

I think it does a lot of damage to the credibility of the OCC, damages economically, when an institution receives an approval, stands up an operational business, complies with the conditions under which the approval was granted, and then…

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Aug 2, 2021

Regulators should want these innovative financial institutions to enter the regulated financial system.

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Aug 2, 2021

The 21st century will not be America's century if we are not open to innovation.

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Aug 2, 2021

I think it was a big mistake to be reconsidering the CRA. It had been 25 years, and the updates were mostly about providing clarity, objectivity, and transparency.

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