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've known John since before I was elected and have worked closely with him on health issues, especially Medicaid reimbursement and asthma. I am supporting his re-election.
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He wants to work with people around the world, and he couldn't work with people in his own office. And he's supposed to be open, as our man at the U.N., to ideas from other people. And he's been a real tyrant when it came to people he worked with, who disagreed with him. This man doesn't have the temperament for this job.
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It's not a federal mandate, ... It's an opportunity for your community, on a grass roots basis, to come together and decide how you can tell the story of Lincoln.
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There was a one-third increase in federal funds over the next five years coming back to Illinois, ... That doesn't happen very often.
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Nothing should ever be said to demean or diminish that moral tragedy, ... I'm also sorry if anything I said, in any way, cast a negative light on our fine men and women in the military.
sorry
I'm sorry that this wasn't done years and years ago,
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I'm hoping that (the president and Congress are) sensitive to what consumers are needing,
july phoenix turning
Oh, my goodness. The July 10th Phoenix memo. We're turning this over to Congress. The whole world's going to see this.
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I wanted to make certain that no conflicts of interest would have prevented Mr. Flanigan from performing his duties,
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at this time in light of the national security interests in question.
victory
This was a victory for the American people,
mend patriot
We do not want to end the Patriot Act. We want to mend the Patriot Act.
create environment helped likely permissive
At the very least, Mr. Gonzales helped to create a permissive environment that made it more likely that abuses would take place.
hands opportunity
This opportunity is slipping through our hands like grains of sand.