Quotes from Raja Krishnamoorthi

In my experience, union leaders are respected by their members.

Partisan politics is not my passion.

I strongly support screening all visitors and potential immigrants thoroughly to prevent bad actors from entering the country.

Mail enables businesses to deliver vital services and products, including medication, and allows these same businesses to receive payments in a timely way.

When the chair of an investigating committee refuses to share vital findings or source information with any of his colleagues, his committee's ability to function has been fundamentally undermined.

A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.

Ultimately, much of the dysfunction in Congress is due to the impact of big money, which drowns out the voices of working families and leads to the special treatment of special interests.

I was always a little skeptical of how voters would react to my name.

Voters should know what their representative is doing, what votes he casts, and who he pays, so my office will make this data readily available in a way which is easy to understand.

When a foreign adversary knows that an American official has deceived or withheld vital information from our government, it creates a fundamental counterintelligence vulnerability that can render that official irreparably compromised.

When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.

In the past, leaders of both parties have been able to reach across the partisan divide. They succeeded by retaining their own humanity and recognizing the same in their political opponents.

Illinois is home to a disproportionate share of Dreamers and would suffer a significant economic blow should they be compelled to leave.

I have strong differences with Mr. Trump on a woman's right to choose and what kind of justices belong on the Supreme Court.

There's a lot of good, bipartisan legislation that passes in committee and then gets bottled up. As a businessman, it surprised me.

We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America's middle class and seniors and must do what it takes to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, including enabling the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs.

Pocketbook and economic issues is pretty much all I campaigned on.

There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.

We need to cut unnecessary weapons programs like the F-35 fighter plane that cost trillions of dollars and don't even work.

So many of our businesses rely on green card holders - how are we supposed to attract these people if they think they'll be detained at the airport if they go abroad for a wedding or just to show their baby to relatives?

In addition to skyrocketing premiums, Trumpcare also unravels protections that older Americans want and need in their health coverage.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

Trumpcare would be devastating for millions of American families, but perhaps no one will bear the brunt of its cruelty more than older Americans.

Our best path to economic growth and global competitiveness is to invest in our people - not to provide huge new tax breaks to special interests.