Bob Casey, Jr. Quotes

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Bob Casey, Jr.

Profession : Politician

Birth : April 13, 1960

Currently, many job seekers must check a box on their applications indicating whether they have a criminal history. These boxes are often used as proxies for job fitness, and job-seekers with criminal histories frequently find themselves screened out of contention. As a matter of basic fairness and also economic sense, it's time to ban the box.

Bob Casey, Jr.

The most direct path to success is a good job, but the road to employment for those with criminal records is often riddled with barriers. Removing those barriers would allow those with records to leave the past behind, support their families, make a positive future - and improve our economy.

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Barack Obama and I have an honest disagreement on the issue of abortion.

Bob Casey, Jr.

Democrats in 2020 can't just drive by red counties. You have to stop, get out of your car, ask for people's votes, and engage with them on issues that relate to their lives.

Bob Casey, Jr.

If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?

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So often, generalizations don't apply to Catholic voters. Catholics are concerned about the war, the economy, about issues like abortion, issues pertaining to the budget and funding Medicaid and Medicare and what happens to the environment.

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The Supreme Court has increasingly come down on the side of big corporations instead of workers and middle-class families.

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Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.

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I hope we can agree that it's better to cut taxes substantially, robustly, for the middle class as opposed to the top 1 percent. That would lift people's wages or take-home pay. And when you do that, you automatically are reducing somewhat the big costs in their lives.

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The evidence is pretty strong: if you have access to family planning and birth control, the abortion rate is going to go down.

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When you have a governor of your party, that governor has the capacity to be able to build a party, lead a party, more so than any Senator or anyone in the Congressional delegation.

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After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

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No state can invest the kinds of dollars in infrastructure necessary on their own. They need federal help.

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I think it's clear to most people that the description of pro-life Democrat is accurate. I've been very consistent. What it means is I try to support policies that help women and children both before and after birth.

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You always want to be open to possibilities in the new year.

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We should all agree that we should repair roads and bridges and water systems.

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No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart.

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I know Barack Obama. And I believe that as president, he'll pursue the common good by seeking common ground rather than trying to divide us.

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I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does. But there's no question that a lot of our legal underpinnings find a good bit of their foundations in the Scriptures.

Bob Casey, Jr.

Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe.

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