Quotes from Raja Krishnamoorthi

I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most - hard-pressed working families struggling to reach or stay in the middle class.

We should never waive the checks on government spending that taxpayers deserve.

Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.

We must have the strictest adherence to security procedures to protect against compromise by hostile foreign powers.

Working with a Republican co-sponsor, Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, I introduced a bill to strengthen our nation's career and technical education programs and more closely align them with the needs of local businesses and industries.

The possibility that members of the Trump team coordinated and colluded with agents of the Kremlin on Russia's interference in our elections is a profound and disturbing one, but it is pivotal that we approach this issue with the seriousness it deserves.

Following well-established national security screening procedures and accurately informing Congress about them is not a joke or a political game. It is essential to guaranteeing that our national secrets are protected and to preventing possible blackmailing of key administration officials.

Donald Trump will become president even after losing the popular vote in our November elections by a wide margin. To govern effectively, he must appeal to a broader base than what he campaigned on and avoid the divisive rhetoric that alienated so many Americans.

I am hopeful that both India and U.S.A. would be able to expand their counter-terror partnership through wider intelligence sharing and effective coordination.

In truth, ending DACA will cost us tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.

My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.

The American people need to know if public servants are operating in the best interests of the United States or the Kremlin.

The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.

I'm looking forward to going to Congress to pursue my Working Families Agenda and find areas of bipartisan agreement to move forward on important legislation.

I believe you cannot survive in this global economy without some form of postsecondary education.

Illinois is large, but we do not always receive our fair share of federal resources because our leadership is often divided. When we all row together, good things happen.

Every night at dinner, my father would say something about the greatness of the United States - and tell us to make sure the government is there for the next people who come along and need it.

In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.

One of the positives of the Illinois delegation is the congressmen and women work together on issues of local concern in a lot of different ways.

America works best when we work together to expand the circle of inclusion.

Cutting tax credits for education and training will result in more Americans working at minimum-wage jobs while U.S. companies go begging for the higher-paid skilled workers they need.

Illinois is becoming more diverse, more tolerant, and even more green.

Our country's history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that 'all men are created equal' for the members of our ever-expanding national family: women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, gays and lesbians, the disabled, immigrants, and refugees.

We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.