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Mike Quigley
American
Politician
Born:
Oct 17
,
1958
Country
Government
People
Rights
Women
You
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Immigration is not about visa numbers or building a fence. It is about reclaiming our roots as a nation of immigrants and a refuge for those who have been cast aside.
Mike Quigley
Immigration
Building
Nation
Our
Visa
Those
Immigrants
About
Cast
Fence
Been
Refuge
Aside
Roots
Who
Numbers
There was a time not too long ago when American seniors were too often forced to go without food, medicine, and quality healthcare. But thanks to transformative programs like Social Security, most seniors in this country are provided the opportunity to live with the stability and peace of mind they have earned and deserve.
Mike Quigley
Time
Food
Peace
Quality
Opportunity
Mind
Long
Country
Thanks
Seniors
Live
Peace Of Mind
Medicine
Too
Programs
Earned
Security
Like
Most
Forced
Without
Healthcare
Go
Were
Provided
American
Stability
Often
Transformative
Social
Social Security
Deserve
Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterrent at sea while generating billions in savings and easing pressure on the Navy's shipbuilding budget.
Mike Quigley
Pressure
Savings
Back
Easing
Scaling
Would
Deterrent
Generating
Maintain
Budget
Robust
Eight
While
Fleet
Sea
Billions
Navy
The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.
Mike Quigley
Government
Trust
Corruption
State
Local
Cost
Federal
Real
Loss
Whether
Public
Public Trust
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
Work
Government
You
World
Face
Live
Everything
One Area
Punish
City
District
Mentality
Area
Spite
Policy
Real
Off
Managing
Just
Nose
The Real World
Real World
Cut
Cutting
Your
Congressional
Connected
The U.S. Constitution guarantees women across this country, including my daughters, the right to choose for themselves when and how to start their families. Yet, more than forty years after Roe v. Wade, women's reproductive rights remain in jeopardy.
Mike Quigley
Constitution
Rights
Women
Country
More
Remain
Daughters
How
Wade
Years
Roe
Families
Than
After
Reproductive
Themselves
Across
Choose
Forty
Forty Years
Including
Jeopardy
Right
Start
Guarantees
Opening up the Capitol dome and giving the public a look at the inner workings of Congress - however messy they may be - certainly won't be pretty. But trust isn't earned by showing off only your Sunday best. The dirty laundry has to be aired, too.
Mike Quigley
Best
Trust
Sunday
Giving
Congress
Too
Earned
Laundry
Pretty
Only
Dirty
Opening
Look
Messy
However
Off
Dome
Up
May
Public
Capitol
Your
Certainly
Workings
Showing
Inner
We defeated communism in part by showing the world that a commitment to democracy and expanding economic opportunity makes people's lives better and nations more secure, meaning our commitments overseas also makes us stronger and safer here at home.
Mike Quigley
Home
Democracy
Commitment
Communism
People
World
Better
Opportunity
Stronger
Our
Secure
More
Economic
Economic Opportunity
Part
Also
Safer
Makes
Overseas
Expanding
Commitments
Nations
Meaning
Us
Showing
Lives
Defeated
Here
Unions have long championed measures to reduce social and economic inequality, and efforts to weaken the labor movement at both the state and federal level have successfully stalled any progress.
Mike Quigley
Progress
Long
Unions
State
Weaken
Both
Economic
Federal
Federal Level
Inequality
Reduce
Labor
Labor Movement
Efforts
Any
Movement
Social
Successfully
Measures
Level
Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history.
Mike Quigley
History
Challenges
World
Despite
Most
Globalization
Led
Times
Productive
Peaceful
World History
From bank accounts to financial systems, power grids to air traffic controls - our most critical infrastructure remain attractive cyber targets, and if they are ever compromised, the effects could be devastating.
Mike Quigley
Financial
Power
Our
Air
Critical
Systems
Financial Systems
Compromised
Remain
Could
Devastating
Most
Attractive
Traffic
Effects
Targets
Accounts
Bank
Controls
Infrastructure
Cyber
Ever
I taught policy and politics for seven years at a university. I told my students lobbyists are not a bad thing; they're absolutely vital.
Mike Quigley
Politics
Lobbyists
Seven
Bad
Vital
Absolutely
Bad Thing
Students
Policy
Years
Taught
Thing
University
As the largest contributor to the United Nations and funder of international family planning, the U.S. is in a unique position to continue to lead the global agenda and place reproductive health at its core.
Mike Quigley
Health
Family
Family Planning
United Nations
Lead
Global
Continue
Contributor
Nations
Reproductive
Place
Agenda
Planning
International
Unique
United
Largest
Core
Position
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
Better
Accountability
About
More
Federal
Hyperbole
Budget
How
Replace
Discussion
Informed
Transparency
Reasonable
Reinvent
Need
I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.
Mike Quigley
Recycling
Out
Something
Take
Feel
Like
Because
Doing
Actually
Racial politics in Chicago has a long history of being intertwined with the mayor's race, but I'd like to think we're past much of that.
Mike Quigley
Politics
History
Long
Past
Think
Intertwined
Long History
Like
Chicago
Being
Mayor
Race
Racial
Much
Violence of all forms is wreaking havoc in communities across the country, disproportionately impacting communities of color and shaving half a million years of life off our collective lifespan. But it doesn't have to be this way.
Mike Quigley
Life
Collective
Country
Half
Our
Way
Havoc
Color
Shaving
Years
Off
Forms
Across
Communities
Disproportionately
Million
Million Years
Violence
A Supreme Court ruling is supposed to provide clarity to contentious legal issues, but in the case of reproductive rights, it was just the beginning of a long, heated, and grueling debate.
Mike Quigley
Rights
Legal
Debate
Long
Beginning
Ruling
Clarity
Case
Supposed
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Issues
Provide
Heated
Just
Reproductive
Grueling
Let's face it: when it comes to denying access to abortion care and reproductive rights, especially for low-income women with limited resources, there's no limit to how far some are willing to go.
Mike Quigley
Rights
Women
Abortion
Care
Face
Resources
Willing
Some
No Limit
Limit
Access
Limited
Limited Resources
How
How Far
Go
Denying
Reproductive
Far
Low-Income
The modern labor movement that began around the mid-19th century has given us many of the basic working rights that we now take for granted.
Mike Quigley
Rights
Take For Granted
Given
Take
Around
Began
Labor
Labor Movement
Modern
Movement
Century
Us
Working
Granted
Many
Now
Basic
I do believe that the majority of elected officials worked very hard and their heart is in the right place.
Mike Quigley
Heart
Believe
Right Place
Majority
Very
Officials
Place
Elected
Worked
Elected Officials
Hard
Right
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.
Mike Quigley
Leadership
Rights
Women
Political
Too
Civil
Civil Rights
Advances
Undermined
Legislation
Often
Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.
Mike Quigley
Women
Smart
Right Thing
Only
Allowing
Empowering
How
Children
The Right Thing
Them
Choose
Many
Right
Thing
As a husband and a father of two daughters, I want young women around the globe to have the same rights and opportunities as my daughters.
Mike Quigley
Rights
Women
Opportunities
Father
Husband
Young
Daughters
Globe
Around
Same
Want
Young Women
Two
There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it.
Mike Quigley
Gun
Support
Most
Reform
Owners
Commonsense
Such A Thing
Thing
When you have a high-volume magazine or an assault weapon, you're not hunting deer or protecting your home; you're out to hunt people.
Mike Quigley
Home
You
People
Hunt
Out
Hunting
Weapon
Magazine
Protecting
Your
Assault
Deer
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