56 Quotes by Maria Cantwell

We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.

It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.

Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.

Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

The underlying bill is a sweetheart deal for oil companies that have made a record $30 billion in profits last quarter,

The Department of Energy says that drilling in ANWR will do little in the near term and very little in the long term, reducing gas prices by only one penny,

America wants a better energy plan than putting a sweetheart deal (for oil companies) in the budget,

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