35 Quotes by Emanuel Cleaver

You would think that if any group in America had 20% to 25% unemployment, it would generate all kinds of attention. The Labor Department would understandably and necessarily begin to concentrate on what can we do to reduce this level of unemployment. Congress would give great time on the floor for debate on what can be done.

The president is committed to making tax cuts for the richest one percent permanent. There are trade-offs for being so generous to those who are so wealthy. Every dollar that is given to millionaires is a dollar that will be cut in our communities.

This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

I have family in Tanzania. I can’t even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We’ve got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don’t have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

First of all, do I think there’s some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I’m an ordained United Methodist pastor; there’s some racists in the Methodist church. I don’t know if there’s a body that does not have some racists in it.

We’ve gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the ‘caustic caucus,’ and we can’t get anything done.

Let’s do more than say the ‘Pledge of Allegiance.’ Let us live it!