56 Quotes by Maria Cantwell

Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don't just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance.

The bill gives oil companies a free ride with backdoor language that allows them to circumvent environmental laws, legal standards, federal agency oversight that every other business in America has to comply with. ... America wants a better energy plan than putting a sweetheart deal in the budget language,

Taxpayers have put more than $24 trillion on the line to resuscitate Wall Street after the economic meltdown of last year. With the help of this massive taxpayer support, the nation's largest banks are posting record profits.

Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.

It's time for a change, and it's not an issue of being old. It's an issue of longevity,

I want to give the president all the tools possible, ... ...Giving the president power to declare an energy emergency sends a very sharp message to people that we are going to be coming after them

I'll tell you where my constituents are. They want to know why we spend billions of dollars on Star Wars defense, and yet we don't have the security to guarantee that there's not going to be a nuclear device in a cargo container that comes to the Port of Seattle.

High fuel costs are costing people their jobs, their pensions and their businesses,

It was no big deal. It didn't affect my vision and I could breathe OK.