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There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.
- Dick Durbin
#Human
#Law
#Legal
#Nation
#Respect
The fact is I tried for years to work with the financial industry on reasonable swipe fee reform, but the industry wouldn't have it.
- Dick Durbin
#Financial
#Industry
#Reform
#Tried
#Work
We all make mistakes. But I'm lucky. Being from Illinois and from the Midwest, we believe in pretty basic fairness. Once you've made a mistake, get up, dust yourself off, and go to work.
- Dick Durbin
#Believe
#Go
#Mistake
#Work
#Yourself
We borrow 40 cents out of every dollar that we spend. We borrow most of it from countries like China. They have become major creditors of the United States and have more power over our economy than we want them to. So dealing with this is not only the right thing economically, it's certainly right from a moral viewpoint.
- Dick Durbin
#Moral
#Power
#Right
#The Right Thing
We need to respect free speech, but we need to respect one another's rights to free speech, too.
- Dick Durbin
#Free
#Need
#Respect
#Rights
#Speech
Every day seems to bring news about another for-profit college scam. Hundreds of thousands of students have been deceived, misled, and harassed into enrolling at these schools where they end up with a mountain of debt and a worthless degree.
- Dick Durbin
#Day
#End
#Every Day
#News
#Scam
We've had enough with loopholes in our gun laws that allow dangerous people to get their hands on guns.
- Dick Durbin
#Dangerous
#Enough
#Gun
#Hands
#People
DACA, to me personally, and the DREAM Act are very personal and mean an awful lot.
- Dick Durbin
#Act
#Dream
#Me
#Mean
#Personal
There is no question that tobacco is addictive and that tobacco kills.
- Dick Durbin
#Addictive
#Question
#Tobacco
I don't disagree with Senator McCain when he talks about the earmark process.
- Dick Durbin
#About
#Disagree
#He
#Process
#Senator
Borrowing 40 cents out of every dollar we spend for missiles or food stamps is unsustainable. And being indebted for generations to China and OPEC does not make American a stronger nation.
- Dick Durbin
#American
#Every
#Food
#Nation
#Stronger
There are only two honest ways to reduce our debt: cut spending or raise revenues.
- Dick Durbin
#Debt
#Honest
#Only
#Raise
#Two
I've known Al Franken for over 20 years. He is my friend. He was on the floor of the Senate announcing his resignation. I sat just a few feet away from him. He said it was the worst day in his political life. It was a somber feeling. It was a reality.
- Dick Durbin
#Day
#Feet
#Life
#Political
#Reality
A journalist gathers information for a media outlet that disseminates the information through a broadly defined 'medium' - including newspaper, nonfiction book, wire service, magazine, news Web site, television, radio or motion picture - for public use. This broad definition covers every form of legitimate journalism.
- Dick Durbin
#Information
#Journalism
#Media
#Service
Until we make campaigns affordable, then we're going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups.
- Dick Durbin
#Congress
#Interest
#Make
#Special
#Until
There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.
- Dick Durbin
#Government
#Question
#Rules
#Sometimes
We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.
- Dick Durbin
#Conversation
#Deal
#Security
#Social
Before I was elected to Congress, I worked in a courtroom. For years, I defended doctors and hospitals, and for years, I sued them on behalf of people who were victims of medical malpractice.
- Dick Durbin
#Congress
#Medical
#People
#Who
#Years
If the Department of Education is serious about fighting for students and protecting taxpayers, a full ban of mandatory arbitration clauses is a no-brainer.
- Dick Durbin
#Education
#Fighting
#Full
#Serious
Millions of Americans take vitamins safely every day, including me. Vitamins and mineral supplements taken in recommended doses are safe. It's the designer supplements that are worrisome.
- Dick Durbin
#Day
#Every Day
#Me
#Mineral
#Supplements
Whether you agree or disagree with privatization, two things are obvious. First, taxpayers need to be asking more and better questions before handing over control of critical public assets like a highway, an airport, or a parking meter concession. And second, Uncle Sam is being played for a sucker.
- Dick Durbin
#Agree
#Better
#Control
#Questions
#Two
When I hear my friend John Boehner say that we have the best health care in the world, I don't dispute it for a moment. If I were sick, this is the country I want to be in, with these doctors, these hospitals, and these medical professionals.
- Dick Durbin
#Best
#Health
#Medical
#Moment
#World
We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.
- Dick Durbin
#About
#Campaigns
#Finance
#Talk
#Way
As a public official, when I take a position, I stand up to explain and defend it. I file annual financial disclosures, campaign finance reports, and have to face the scrutiny of public opinion.
- Dick Durbin
#Campaign
#Face
#Finance
#Opinion
#Stand
We've had enough with the gun traffickers and straw purchasers who buy guns out of state and sell them out of the trunks of their cars in Chicago.
- Dick Durbin
#Buy
#Enough
#Gun
#Guns
#State
Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.
- Dick Durbin
#Home
#Our
#Party
#Politics
#State
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