Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes

I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall,

Let's vote to fund the wall.

Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.

If the government can afford luxury travel for its cabinet officials, then surely we can find the resources to invest in quality education, jobs skills training, and properly fund the State Department and foreign aid programs.

See, when the government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs.

It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.

The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.

President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.

The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs to Washington, 'Stop! Stop the spending, stop the job-killing policies.' And yet, Democrats in Washington refuse to listen to the American people.

Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

There is something in the heart of every politician that loves a dam, or a harbor, or a bridge or a military installation.

The United States is lucky: It has only two neighboring countries and oceans on both sides. We have over a dozen neighboring countries and we have a long and complicated history with them.

It was my duty to protect the people of America from the impossible burden of annexing Mexico

Foreign policy debates are frequently segregated from domestic policy ones, so commentators who propose increasing the defense budget or sending more foreign aid are seldom asked to explain which domestic programs they’d cut or which taxes they’d raise, in order to find the money.

However Donald Trump came upon the foreign policy views he espoused, they were as crucial to his election as his views on trade and the border.

We want to build a wall.

Donald Trump is a leader. He produces results and is ready to get tough in order to protect American jobs and families.

We obviously don't like the idea of a wall. It's not a friendly gesture. And my own personal opinion is that it might not even work for the purposes that it's meant to work for.

Under Donald Trump, our deals will be smarter, our soldiers will have what they need, and our veterans will have what they earned. We will secure our borders, protect our nation. In all this, we will be more serious. And when we do, this nation will start winning again.

Taxes are an important tool for us together with infrastructure investments, research, and development to create more jobs.

I've come around to thinking that having Donald Trump in the White House would be wonderful. Even if he isn't able to achieve very much. Now, daddy's gonna build the wall, daddy's gonna fix trade. That's going to happen.

Improving small business opportunities through federal contracts creates jobs and saves taxpayer money.