Tammy Baldwin Quotes

• I have no idea what goes on in another person’s mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don’t go back and say, ‘Why did this person get to the right position?’ It’s only, ‘Are you yes or are you no?’

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• I’ve decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class – a leader with the courage to do what’s right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

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• I had a serious childhood illness – sort of like spinal meningitis – that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn’t be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

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• When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

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• All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can’t win because I’m a progressive… because I’m a woman… even because I’m a lesbian.

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• I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

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• From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

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• It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

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• Politicians in Washington and Madison aren’t hearing, aren’t listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

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• Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

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• The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

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• In my grandfather’s lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

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• I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

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• Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

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Tammy Baldwin (14)

Birth:	11th February, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

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