Bennie Thompson Quotes

• Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

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• Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

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• Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.

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• Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation’s seniors. We’re not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.

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• If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, ‘You can go to any school you want to; we don’t see race.’ Biggest lie ever told.

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• I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

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• History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.

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• Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.

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• Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

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Bennie Thompson (9)

Birth:	28th January, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Thompson is a lifelong resident of Bolton, near Jackson. He attended Hinds County public schools before earning a B.A. in political science from Tougaloo College in 1968 and an M.S. in educational administration from Jackson State University in 1973. He served as an alderman, then mayor of Bolton before being elected to the Hinds County Board of Supervisors.

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