Because the Bush Administration will set... by Jan Schakowsky

Will Politician Congress Democrat Illinois

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

Other quotes by 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

Disaster American

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

Right History

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

Leadership

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

- 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

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

- Jan Schakowsky

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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

- Ulysses S. Grant

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

- Julien Benda

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

- Maimonides

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

- Aesop