Top 66 Sherrod Brown Quotes

#1. The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.

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Sherrod Brown Quotes #2779
#2. American tax dollars spent on education are meant to support students, not support aggressive, deceptive, and misleading marketing campaigns by certain for-profit education companies.

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#3. Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies,

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#4. With every year that passes, the more we have to be careful not to forget the causes and consequences of the Great Recession.

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#5. Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

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#6. We know that, too often, oil and other hazardous materials are shipped across the country on aging tankers. Too many communities have seen what happens when trains derail and in some cases catch fire.

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#7. The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.

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#8. I have zero interest in being vice president.

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#9. I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something ... I want to get there, I want to support this.

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#10. I've seen the same promises
more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.

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#11. No Ohio family should be forced to go hungry during the holidays or any time.

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#12. From opposing unfair trade deals to fighting for a fair financial system, Hillary Clinton has shown she puts working families first. She knows as president that her first job will be creating jobs for the middle class. I am proud to endorse her today because I know she will keep Ohio moving forward.

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#13. We must work harder to lessen inequalities. Only by doing so can we speak with credibility and moral authority to other countries and the People's Republic of China.

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#14. Most Ohioans would be surprised to know that the same Wall Street megabanks which received bailouts from taxpayers in 2009 also receive taxpayer-funded advantages today simply because of their 'too big to fail' status.

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#15. Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

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#16. The debate over Social Security should not be about how much we can cut from the program in order to balance the federal budget. The debate over Social Security should not be about raising the retirement age or limiting benefits. The debate over Social Security should be about retirement security.

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#17. The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

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#18. There's no question there's enough information available to all of us in this society for darn near anything. The problem is the quality of the information, the presentation of it ... You shouldn't have to be a lawyer.

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#19. There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago, in spite of the talking points and the yard signs.

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#20. I look back at history, and some of the worst governments we've ever had, you know one of the first things they ever did? They went after the trade unions.

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#21. The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

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#22. We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.

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#23. It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

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#24. Our men and women in uniform make enough sacrifices for our country. Their credit rating should not be one of those sacrifices.

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#25. Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.

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#26. I have generally and will always fight for clean air and safe drinking water laws.

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#27. When China fails to live up to its obligations, we push back - sort of. We accept arguments from Chinese leaders that they are a developing country that needs time to reform.

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#28. Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

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#29. The Ohio Legislature's passed a law to allow concealed weapons in day care centers, but interesting: this same Legislature, in its wisdom, doesn't allow concealed weapons in the statehouse.

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#30. We should forcefully call out China whenever it violates international standards.

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#31. I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp.

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#32. I love working for the people of Ohio, and I have a lot more work to do as their senator.

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#33. When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises.

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#34. People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.

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#35. I don't look in the mirror and see a president of the United States. I don't have that ambition.

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#36. What's the deal with Johnny Damon? He can't hit. He can't catch. He can't throw. He's sort of the five-tool guy ... without any of the tools!

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#37. We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

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#38. Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

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#39. We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

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#40. We're a country of rule of law, and rule of law doesn't move fast, especially in an entity as big the U.S. government.

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#41. The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

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#42. The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

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#43. This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs.

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#44. Since the beginning of the Bush administration when we were attacked, September 11th, we've not had any major terrorist attack in this country. We've had individual crazy people, of normally, they look more like me than they look like Middle Easterners.

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#45. Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It's not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you're working. You get help when you're not.

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#46. The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

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#47. Sherrod Brown and President Obama have lost the faith of Jewish Democrats.

Josh Mandel

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#48. Ohio workers and Ohio manufacturers already know that we are, in fact, in a trade war, and the Chinese have done very well, thank you.

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#49. Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

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#50. Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

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#51. That just doesn't make sense, that government should be making money off students.

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#52. As Ohio's working families continue to recover from the worst economic recession in our country's history, we need a president who's committed to growing our economy by lifting up the middle class.

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#53. Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

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#54. This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the drug and insurance industries. America's seniors were an afterthought.

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#55. Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall.

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#56. Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe.

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#57. If we expect to continue our leadership in the global economy, we must invest in a long-term transportation plan -f or both highways and transit programs. Too many of our roads, bridges, and railways have fallen into disrepair.

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#58. Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

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#59. We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act.

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#60. It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

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#61. Ohioans, I think, in large numbers, have felt that the government has not been on their side in all of these issues: on pensions, on the cost of prescription drugs, on the health-care system generally, on jobs, on trade agreements.

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#62. Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

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#63. When I say they're lunatics, that's what I'm talking about. People that think you should allow guns in day care centers, but they're protecting themselves by not allowing guns in their workplace, that would be in that category of lunatics.

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#64. And don't forget, Sherrod Brown is black. There's a racial component here, too. And now, the newspaper that I'm reading all this from is The New York Times, and they, of course, don't mention that.

Rush Limbaugh

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#65. My Lutheran faith is important to me.

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#66. Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

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