Tim Bishop Quotes

• As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personal, Reliable

• Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hard Work

• However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration’s policies force inflation.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Country, Economy

  Tags in President

• In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Unemployment

• In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Country, Economy

  Tags in Budget

• We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Care

• It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Possible

• Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Rider

• The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Residents

• Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trade, Productivity

• In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Violence

• A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation’s economy and transportation systems.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Healthy

• For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Economy

• Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trade, Inflation

• Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Work

  Tags in People

• Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Foreign Policy, Trade

• Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Nation

• The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, Environmental

• Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Transportation

• The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Society

  Tags in People

Tim Bishop (27)

Birth:	1st June, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Administrator, Politician

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