Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner
Anthony David Weineris an American politician and former U.S. representative who served New York's 9th congressional district from January 1999 until June 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he won seven terms, never receiving less than 59% of the vote. Weiner resigned from Congress in June 2011 due to a sexting scandal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 September 1964
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?
It's also very important in Latin America. If we can deal with the drug problem there, some of their strife there, it's less likely we have immigration problems here.
It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.
All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none.
There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district.
The picture was of me, and I sent it.
We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.
Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.
I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.
Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.
For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.
Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.
For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.