“If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.” IfsThinkingArtFormTakenComfortableInstitutionsFrustrationSenateLaw EnforcementDelayImpatience Author:Dick Durbin
“If you look at the record and the enviable record which Sandra Day O'Connor has written, you find she was the fifth and decisive vote to safeguard Americans' right to privacy, to require our courtrooms to grant access to the disabled, to allow the federal government to pass laws to protect the environment, to preserve the right of universities to use affirmative action, to ban the execution of children in America.” IfsLooksChildrenUseGovernmentActionAmericaLawRecordsEnvironmentWrittenProtectVoteUniversityAccessPreservesPrivacyGrantsExecutionFederal GovernmentFifthDisabledBansAffirmative ActionAffirmativeCourtroomRight To PrivacySandra Day O ConnorProtect The Environment Author:Dick Durbin
“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings.” IfsBelieveHumansHas BeensDoneHuman BeingsConcernMadAgentsPrisonerPotRegimesNaziDescribingFbiGulagsFbi Agents Author:Dick Durbin
“We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.” IfsNeedsStreetsSafePoliceLocalsSecureDepartmentNeighborhoodHomelandPersonnelSheriffs Author:Dick Durbin
“If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.” PeopleIfsCareHurtConditionsRepublicanCostHolesHealth CareGapsSeniorSmall BusinessCoverageMedicareTurned DownDoughnutHealth Care Costs Author:Dick Durbin
