There is a lot that happens around the w... by Jan Schakowsky

World Politician Control Democrat Illinois

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

Other quotes by Jan Schakowsky

History Will People

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

Ideas Nothing Will

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

Policy Sound

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

Experience Freedom

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

Control Years

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

Leadership

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

- Jan Schakowsky

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