Todd Young Quotes

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Todd Young

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 24, 1972

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

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The American people deserve an honest assessment of the state of our foreign affairs.

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The Humvee is an American military icon and will continue to be for decades. It is an essential part of U.S. military operations.

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It typically takes bipartisan work to build enough consensus to get things through our legislative process.

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Through a respectful exchange of ideas and emphasis on shared goals, I am confident we can put many of our disagreements behind us to ensure a better future for all Americans.

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As someone who took an oath to defend this country, I refuse to sit idle until the unimaginable occurs: Iran cheats or simply runs out the clock, and the largest state sponsor of terrorism threatens the United States and its allies with a nuclear weapon.

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It's extremely hard for the economy to grow when the workforce is shrinking.

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We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.

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Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

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Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

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Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

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Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients' lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.

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I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their God-given liberties.

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Our safety net must reflect our country's belief that - without exception - Americans are not liabilities to be written off but assets to be realized.

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Intelligence work in the Marine Corps proved to me the strategic value in establishing a Central Command to act as a clearinghouse for disparate bits and floating bytes of information.

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Part of my responsibility as an officer was to oversee a team of analysts charged with synthesizing all of the data points on the map to see how one related to another. By bringing those data points together, a broader picture could be drawn and a strategy developed to counter the existing threat.

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As the son of a small business owner, I know how regulatory overreach can stifle our economy and cost Americans jobs.

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As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'

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We need to simplify the tax code to reward Americans for working hard, investing, saving - and allow families to keep more of their own money.

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We need a conservative welfare reform initiative that is focused on putting people back to work and ensures taxpayer money is only spent on programs that have been proven to work.

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