BILL FOSTER

I think when you provide something absolutely free, the potential of abuse exists. Getting an education without skin in the game is not good.

I am grateful for the sacrifices our veterans have made to defend our freedom and prosperity.

We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world.

There's a fundamental question that everyone has to answer: What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man? It's not something that science helps you answer at all. It's one of these questions like, Who are you gong to marry? Science doesn't really help you with the question.

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax returns.

I'm pushing - on a bipartisan basis, actually - to get federal support for the creation of high-quality textbooks that can be downloaded for free on the Internet.

We owe these heroes a great deal - it is our solemn responsibility to ensure that all veterans receive the care and respect they have earned.

I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.

I really believe in U.S. manufacturing and U.S. exports, but we have to have a level playing field.

As someone who started a small business from scratch, I know how important it is for families and for communities to have strong job creation.

I believe we need a balanced, bipartisan approach to debt reduction that includes a combination of spending cuts, investments in economic growth, and simplification of the tax code that closes corporate loopholes that incentivize companies to ship jobs overseas.

I think the amount of love and trust on Capitol Hill is often in short supply, and having more dogs here would probably make this place work better and maybe in a more bipartisan manner.

One of the big concerns is the increasing disrespect for the scientific method and for policies that aren't based on facts and evidence.

If you're dealing with live nuclear material, and you do anything that disperses them, it is very hard to hide, even after a 24-day cleanup period, the fact that there was nuclear material in this facility.

Spend a while listening to people in your district to make sure you understand how they are served well in government and how they could be served better.

Measles may not spread as fast as erroneous sound bites and tweets, but they both have the potential to cause a great amount of damage.

I supported and voted for the public option in the version of the Affordable Care Act passed by the U.S. House. Had it been incorporated into the final version of the ACA, it would have done much to increase the competitiveness of ACA Exchange Marketplaces.

I support common-sense measures like universal background checks to prevent guns from falling into the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill.

Immigrants greatly contribute to our country's economic prosperity.

The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and the incompetence of Congress in managing science.

As we continue to work to pass comprehensive immigration reform, we must take action to stop these predators who are exploiting immigrants attempting to play by the rules.

Alan Greenspan is going to go down in history as one of the worst Federal Reserve chairmen ever.

Anyone concerned with the broken politics in Washington needs to look no further than Mitch McConnell's cynical manipulation of the rules and obstruction of the NLRB.

Those who promote hatred, bigotry, and fear do not represent America and do not represent us.