Danny K. Davis Quotes

Danny K. Davis

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 6, 1941

Trade and globalization are here to stay.

Danny K. Davis

I don't think you decree political positions.

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Our nation's attitudes toward trade have been shaped by the evolving struggle over who has been helped and who has been disadvantaged by trade policy as our economy has developed.

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Chicago is a world-class culinary center. We need to guard that reputation and status.

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What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs.

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People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.

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I think life is the sum total of your experiences.

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One of the things about the Constitution - that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place, and there is room to change.

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Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem.

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To ensure fair competition, there must be effective controls on currency manipulation, and monopoly pricing needs to be outlawed on such items as intellectual property, especially pharmaceuticals.

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I don't have as much money as Rahm Emanuel.

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My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

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The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

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One thing I always say when I discuss guns with people - if a gun is not present, it's generally more difficult to do irreparable harm.

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I have a great deal of respect and affinity for Tammy Duckworth; she's a seatmate of mine. She's got heart, soul; she's a war hero.

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I have a tendency to campaign positively and campaign on issues, not try to tear someone else down.

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I've got hundreds of friends who are police officers. I work with the police.

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I grew up in rural Arkansas, and I'm afraid that begging is not part of our characteristics.

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The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy and and our society.

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I grew up in the South, and I think there are lots of people who have distorted views of the South.

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