Joe Sestak

Politician

1951-12-12

Quotes by Joe Sestak

• We must work hard to ensure that Social Security remains solvent for future generations.

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• What this nation most wants, most yearns for, most needs is someone where people know, all Americans know, that even when they disagree well with him, he will always be accountable to them above one's party, above self and any special interest.

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• Americans want someone who is accountable to them above self, above party, and above any special interest. They want a President that has a depth of global experience to restore U.S. leadership to the world and to protect our American dream at home.

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• I understand the challenge with student loans. But what about the labor force, the enlisted men and women, so to speak, of ships. Those who work with their hands and their minds. We need to do what we do in the military, is we train and retrain.

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• During my years in the Navy and in the White House, I was involved in assessing how a war with Iran would go. In summary: It would be ugly.

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• Amateurs do tactics, experts do logistics, as we learn in the military.

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• Our 21st-century world is an incredibly dangerous one. Between brutal civil wars, violent extremism, spreading autocracy, rising inequality, territorial expansionism, election interference, and nuclear proliferation, our policymakers have their hands full.

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• We did more to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions with a computer virus than we ever could have with bombs (and we did still more with diplomacy - the abandonment of which is also bad for our military, because militaries can only stop a problem, not fix a problem).

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• If you have a president who is really trusted, then you can move and advance those policies that actually make the American dream available to everyone.

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• I'm a guy that verifies before he trusts.

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• When there's no light at the end of the tunnel, it's hard to keep things going.

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• I do not agree with the use of 'signing statements' to effectively act as a line-item veto, except when the President believes a law or a provision within a law is unconstitutional.In general, if a President signs a law, they are committing themselves to enforcing it. If they don't believe it should become a law, they should veto it.

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• We need to restore U.S. leadership to a world order that is rules-based in order to protect our American dream here at home.

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• I want to restore U.S. leadership within a rules-based liberal world order that collectively holds nations accountable for their illiberal behavior, whether in foreign or domestic spheres.

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