Mike Quigley : (12)

" With more than half of the American workforce without private pension coverage, Social Security provides economic certainty within a system that is fair, equitable, and easy to understand. You work hard, pay into the system, and the federal government makes a promise to pay back your earned benefits when you retire. It’s that simple. " - Mike Quigley

" The FDA first began prohibiting gay and bisexual men from donating blood in the early 1980s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, when the risk from blood transfusion was just beginning to be understood. In the decades to follow, the ‘lifetime ban’ was left largely unchanged. " - Mike Quigley

" Once you’ve stared death in the face, every day is a good day. " - Mike Quigley

" What I would like to do… once I take care of all my kids’ student loans, is buy a red 1965 Mustang and fully restore it. " - Mike Quigley

" My outspoken positions haven’t always been popular in the halls of Congress, but they have been rooted in what I believed was right and necessary. " - Mike Quigley

" If the U.S. fails to set the rules for global trade, then other countries with records of environmental and labor abuses, like China, will step in to fill the void. " - Mike Quigley

" Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination. " - Mike Quigley

" Everything is connected, so you can’t just live in a Trumpian world and be an isolationist when you’re managing government by congressional district or by city. The mentality that you can cut off one area to punish a policy just doesn’t work in the real world… it’s cutting off your nose to spite your face. " - Mike Quigley

" We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability. " - Mike Quigley

" Since 2001, I’ve done what every elected official should be doing in government right now. My staff and I took a look at the books, thought outside the box and proposed reforms. " - Mike Quigley