Jan Schakowsky Quotes

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.
Jan Schakowsky

Help, Control, Cannot

And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq.
Jan Schakowsky

Saying, Problem, Violence

As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations.
Jan Schakowsky

Life, Future, American

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
Jan Schakowsky

Cannot, While, Sit

As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.
Jan Schakowsky

Work, Health, Crisis

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.
Jan Schakowsky

Sure, Both, Congress

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.
Jan Schakowsky

Health, Great, Medical

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.
Jan Schakowsky

Health, Care, Preventive

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.
Jan Schakowsky

Possible, Sensible, Ability

I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.
Jan Schakowsky

Proud, American, Found

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.
Jan Schakowsky

Health, Care, Year

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
Jan Schakowsky

Freedom, Experience, Important

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.
Jan Schakowsky

Best, Control, Plan

Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.
Jan Schakowsky

Tired, Nothing, Old

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.
Jan Schakowsky

Light, Economy, Simply

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.
Jan Schakowsky

History, Important, Democracy

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
Jan Schakowsky

Leadership, Republican, Ideas

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.
Jan Schakowsky

War, American, Three

Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation.
Jan Schakowsky

History, Help, Through

We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.
Jan Schakowsky

Health, Care, Community

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.
Jan Schakowsky

War, Strong, Voting

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Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: May 26, 1944

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