Eric Swalwell Quotes

Eric Swalwell

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 16, 1980

If people are interested in changing the direction of the country, Iowa is the battleground.

Eric Swalwell

We believe that every child has a right to learn without fear, that every parent has a right to hug their beautiful little babies when they come home from school, and that all of us, we have a right to dance at a concert, laugh at the theater, pray at a synagogue, at a church, and at a mosque.

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Our rights to live and to love each other, those rights are greater than any other right in the Constitution, period.

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We will accept no corporate PAC money, and we're not going to be driven by the polls.

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Coming into Congress, I didn't really have much of a worldly experience.

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That issue of student debt and college affordability is probably what I would say reinforced that I was a Democrat.

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I don't think I voted in 2000.

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When I was a prosecutor, I got to shoot at the range so I could explain to juries how the firearm worked. You know, to prove intent or to prove that the person didn't accidentally discharge the firearm, I would have to learn everything about the firearm.

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I love country music. Like, I really, really, really love country music.

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The best piece of advice I've received is find a mentor, but also mentor others. You have two hands, so reach up, look for as many mentors as you can to get where you want to go, but never forget that you have another hand, and you have to reach down and lift others up, too.

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Being the first in my family to go to college, I believe, is my greatest accomplishment. It's not my accomplishment; it's my family's accomplishment.

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My parents worked really hard.

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I want us to be a country of free ideas, free markets, and a freedom to dream.

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The NRA - they are a paper tiger.

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As the country gets to know me more, they will see the reason I care so much about Russia is I understand why they thought to help Donald Trump.

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I've seen that most of us want the same things: to be safe where we live, secure in our finances, and free in our lives.

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I was raised to believe nobody is above the law - especially not a president.

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My dad was a cop.

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I've worked since taking a newspaper route at age 9 and served as a prosecutor, a planning commissioner, a city councilman, and a congressman to pay back some of what my community and nation gave me.

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America needs a president who knows how we live and work, who delivers on promises to those who need help, who won't use fear and hate as a political cudgel, and who works to solve our biggest problems instead of nibbling around the edges - a president who will go big, be bold, and do good, and stirs all Americans to do likewise.

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