26 Quotes by Jeff Merkley

I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get.

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.

I wont stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.

We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge resonance of the vision that Senator [Berny] Sanders was putting forward.This has inspired millions of citizens - a style of campaign we've never seen before winning 22 states, extraordinary number of caucuses. Now the challenge is to bring the two halves of the party together.

For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.