Jake Auchincloss Quotes

Jake Auchincloss

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 29, 1988

If you don't understand that calling for violence against your political opponents is unacceptable in a democracy, then you should not be representing one. Marjorie Taylor Greene failed that test.

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Fair process leads to legitimate outcomes.

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Donald Trump left President Joe Biden with many messes to clean up: A raging pandemic, a weakened economy and a cascade of foreign and domestic policies that diminished America's standing on the world stage.

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We need to get away from the politics of grievance and towards the politics of opportunity.

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Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills.

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If you will not have rules, you will have rulers.

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We can't just be against 'defund the police.' We have to proactively go out there and recognize that crime hurts.

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A handwritten Declaration of Independence was on my bedroom wall and the Founding Fathers were above my desk in college.

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The facts on the ground always drive 90% of the reality of diplomacy.

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As an infantry platoon commander in Helmand Province, my mission was to patrol three villages subject to Taliban influence. In tandem with the Afghan police, we tried to establish rapport with tribal elders, to root out Taliban abettors and to generally underwrite security.

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Open debate requires that most stakeholders consider the forum to be fair.

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Maritime transportation is critical to job creation, climate resiliency, and trade.

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Before serving in Congress, I was an infantry platoon commander in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.

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Counterinsurgencies are a political initiative with a military component. They require the regime in power to counter the insurgents with better governance.

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What began as a counterterrorism mission - to bring to justice the architects of 9/11 and deny terrorists a base of operations in Afghanistan - mutated under President George W. Bush into a counterinsurgency and a boondoggle.

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We must investigate, in a bipartisan manner, the entirety of Operation Enduring Freedom. We should declassify the decision-making.

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The fight against Covid-19 is a transnational challenge that calls for vision and boldness.

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In the past, Americans have brought forth their best in times of crisis. After Trump abased our country on the world stage for four years, the United States can reclaim moral leadership through a Marshall Plan for vaccines.

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Investing in biomanufacturing - the production of biological products made from living cells - could benefit the U.S. economy and cement our position as a leader in medical innovation.

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I fought in the first of the 9/11 wars, as a Marine infantry commander in Afghanistan. That invasion achieved nothing of strategic significance; not then, not since.

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