111 Quotes by Charles B. Rangel

No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.

We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.

Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to do.

Not having insurance not only destroys your life, it destroys your fiscal life. It breaks up marriages. You cannot functions anywhere unless you have good health.

Since we replaced the compulsory military draft with an all-volunteer force in 1973, our nation has been making decisions about wars without worry over who fights them. I sincerely believe that reinstating the draft would compel the American public to have a stake in the wars we fight as a nation.

A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.

No one should go into debt if a family member gets sick or injured.