Jeff Bingaman Quotes

First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.

This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

Liberty is what we Americans wanted most of all.

Only Americans can say, My homeland is freedom.

Shall this harbor of Yankee democracy be burned?

No one expresses and demonstrates American values more than the American People.

We hold these truths to be self-evident,” begins the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. Who holds these truths? Americans hold these truths. Who are Americans? People who adhere to these truths. National identity and political principle were inseparable.

The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.

We don't need a new idea; the idea is called America, and it still works.

Just the basic principles of what makes America work for me are very strong in my heart. It's like no other nation in the world.

I yearn for the day when we'll return to the foundational value that makes this country great.

Portland has a long history of embracing the most important of American values. Those are the rights to assembly and the rights to free speech. And we're proud of protecting those core American values.

America is worth fighting for ideologically.

What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of America, the aspirational value - why everybody who wants to come to this country wants to come here - was because we respected the dignity of every living person.

America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.