Author Profile
Sherrod Brown
1952 • American • Politician
60
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Showing 60 quotesAmerican tax dollars spent on education are meant to support students, not support aggressive, deceptive, and misleading marketing campaigns by certain for-profit education companies.— Sherrod Brown
The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.— Sherrod Brown
Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It's not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you're working. You get help when you're not.— Sherrod Brown
People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.— Sherrod Brown
If we expect to continue our leadership in the global economy, we must invest in a long-term transportation plan -f or both highways and transit programs. Too many of our roads, bridges, and railways have fallen into disrepair.— Sherrod Brown
What's the deal with Johnny Damon? He can't hit. He can't catch. He can't throw. He's sort of the five-tool guy... without any of the tools!— Sherrod Brown
Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall.— Sherrod Brown
With every year that passes, the more we have to be careful not to forget the causes and consequences of the Great Recession.— Sherrod Brown
The Ohio Legislature's passed a law to allow concealed weapons in day care centers, but interesting: this same Legislature, in its wisdom, doesn't allow concealed weapons in the statehouse.— Sherrod Brown
We must work harder to lessen inequalities. Only by doing so can we speak with credibility and moral authority to other countries and the People's Republic of China.— Sherrod Brown
We're a country of rule of law, and rule of law doesn't move fast, especially in an entity as big the U.S. government.— Sherrod Brown
I look back at history, and some of the worst governments we've ever had, you know one of the first things they ever did? They went after the trade unions.— Sherrod Brown
Since the beginning of the Bush administration when we were attacked, September 11th, we've not had any major terrorist attack in this country. We've had individual crazy people, of normally, they look more like me than they look like Middle Easterners.— Sherrod Brown
I don't look in the mirror and see a president of the United States. I don't have that ambition.— Sherrod Brown
I have studied the details, listened to Ohioans on all sides of this issue, and consulted with nuclear experts. This deal is not about trusting the Iranian regime, but instead working with our allies on comprehensive, verifiable restrictions to block Iran's pathways to a nuclear bomb without precipitating another war in the Middle East.— Sherrod Brown