Political Quotes

David Roe

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David P. Roe is a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving Vermont's 1st congressional district from January 4, 2005, to January 3, 2021. During his time in Congress, Roe was known for his focus on healthcare issues, particularly in relation to veterans and the military. He served on several committees, including the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, where he advocated for improved services for veterans and their families.

Quotes by year · 2009–20231,687 total · peak 2015 (216)
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Feb 26, 2013

I think the school resource officer program is great.

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Feb 26, 2013

I mean, how much would it cost? It is an older system, it has been upgraded, I am sure, like any automobile or any other technology has and with speeds and all that.

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Feb 26, 2013

I have found nothing in here today that reassures me that I am not going to be having this conversation five years from now.

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Feb 26, 2013

How much does it cost to do it? I know it wouldn't be easy to do, but what is the cost? That is the first thing I would have asked.

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Feb 26, 2013

Well, I was always committed to dunking a basketball, but I could never do it.

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Feb 26, 2013

Thank you, Chairman. And for full disclosure, an electronic medical record made me a Congressman.

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Feb 26, 2013

I think it is time to converge again, it sounds to me like and get on--we diverged 24 years ago.

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Feb 26, 2013

If it takes you--when you enter your record, if it takes a doctor three minutes for the thing to ramp up and get in and you are seeing 25 people that day, you have just delayed your day two, three hours just because of technology.

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Feb 26, 2013

I think the decision has been made in our community and I am ready to yield back is that we are going to have SROs.

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Feb 26, 2013

I have got so tired of adults here in the last election that a week before the election, I went to seven schools.

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Feb 26, 2013

I think that is a good thing to do, but I think the other thing I learned today is we need to go a step further.

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Feb 26, 2013

So it is basically worthless. I hate to say that about Ms. Marable but it was basically worthless.

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Feb 26, 2013

I want to brag on the SRO program.

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Feb 13, 2013

I think technology can do is it can take off the 50 pound pack that my 9 year old grandchild has to walk around with.

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Feb 13, 2013

I think the technology now--and the textbook is horrendously expensive.

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Feb 13, 2013

Instead of kids getting all in a twit and teachers getting all in a twit when May comes, and nobody does anything--we are teaching all that stuff.

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Feb 13, 2013

How do you pay your teachers 30 percent more? And how do you get the best teachers?

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Feb 13, 2013

It was not acceptable to say that these children couldn't achieve what other kids could.

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Feb 13, 2013

There is no question. And in Tennessee, we have a gentleman who lives in Greenville, Tennessee, Scott Niswonger, who personally took it upon himself to improve the educational outcomes of people in rural east Tennessee and the mountains.

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Feb 12, 2013

Thank you for yielding. Dr. Bucshon?

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Feb 12, 2013

Mr. Lorber, if you could wrap up.

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Feb 12, 2013

The rights of workers, as well as the opinion of the nation's highest court, are being eviscerated by an activist labor board.

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Feb 12, 2013

We are obligated to act whenever an agency may be harming our job creators and workforce.

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