Bob Casey Jr. Quotes

As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

What are we Democrats fighting for? We are not fighting for salvation and going to heaven. But we are fighting for Medicaid, Medicare, health care, education, jobs, helping old folks.

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.

I take President Obama at his word that he is a Christian and was born here in America. Now, it's time that we focus on the real issues facing this country.

The issues at the core of our national debates are more complicated than can be explained in soundbites and slogans by talking-heads and special guests. The media caters to our TL;DR-afflicted nation with over-simplified lowest common denominator journalism which completely fails us when the issues are not black-or-white or when the answers require caveats. Nuanced discussions don’t make attention grabbing headlines or dramatic journalistic copy so media reporting disproportionately accentuates extreme perspectives to create the conflict-drama that drives viewers and readership. The resulting rhetoric polarizes rather than convinces.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

The Democrats' radicalism does not end with illegal immigration and health care. It extends into other aspects of their policy platforms.

American elections have usually turned on the issues of war, peace and the economy.

Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

The wealthiest Sudanese don't know what war is. Their children are safe in school.

Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending.

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

I think that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things. The only way you get change is to vote Republican.

I will keep all our young people from having to abandon their towns and families for the other side of the border

I will go even further ... and will vote for all measures to elevate their condition and to educate them (Negroes) separate and apart from the whites ... but when it comes to placing him upon the same social and political level as my own race, I must refuse to do it.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

The poor are fighting this war and the middle class and rich are getting deferments. We must end the graduate school draft exemption.