Dick Durbin
Dick Durbin
Richard Joseph "Dick" Durbinis the senior United States Senator from Illinois, in office since 1997. He has been the Assistant Minority Leader, the second highest position in the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate, since 2015...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 November 1944
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I think what happened to Ronnie White in the United states Senate was disgraceful,
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It's an increase directly attributable to profit-taking by the oil companies,
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really raises serious questions about the consistency of the policy.
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We are the largest magnet for this level of talent in the world.
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We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.
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It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.
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These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.
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Illinois Senator Paul Simon, once said "The test for a Supreme Court nominee is not where he stands on any one specific issue. The test is this: Will you use your power on the court to restrict freedom or expand it"?
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God is not a franchise of the Republican Party.
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We have 11 million people in this country that need a pathway to citizenship.
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In my lifetime, it's the Supreme Court, not Congress, that integrated our public schools, that allowed people of different races to marry, and established the principle that our government should respect the value of privacy of American families. These decisions are the legacy of justices who chose to expand American freedom.
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Would you restrict freedom in America, or would you expand it?
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When his party turned on him, he was in trouble and she was in trouble.
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When will this bridge be completed ... we don't know, ... But we have to take this step to make sure we are moving in that direction quickly.