Quotes from Joe Sestak

The citizens of this nation gave us - my wife and I - a health care plan that saved our daughter's life.

I would immediately rejoin the Paris Accords and reassert U.S. leadership in the critical process of global diplomacy.

For a public option, I voted for that when I was in Congress, and the Senate couldn't stand up to the health insurance industry and took it out.

I want to be that President who serves the American people the way they deserve to be served.

There are too many who have not shared in the benefits of this economy.

Our enlisted are the backbone of our service, are exceptionally a bright group of men women.

Created by Congress as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the CFPB was a direct response to the financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession that began with the subprime mortgage debacle and the unraveling of Lehman Brothers investment bank.

Cyberspace is the new domain of warfare.

Warfare has changed so dramatically.

Some of the greatest national security threats we face cannot be defeated or defended by traditional military hardware, but only by greatly enhanced cyberspace warfare, including both offensive cyber-warfare and cyber-security.

Those who are in our military and now have retired or they left the service actually respect candor. And they respect those that speak without trying to politicize who they are.

The career politicians down in Washington don't want to be held accountable.

Washington, D.C.'s lost the trust and faith of everyone.

Nobody under 40 carries a comb.

Look, I went to war, and we knew by survey that when I went to war that we had a certain percentage in that carrier battle group, and when I was on the ground briefly in Afghanistan, that were gay. And now we come back to America and say they don't have equal rights. I've never understood it. This is something where we have to correct this.

We only won our freedom because of our allies, and we can only sustain it because of them.

On the aircraft carrier under my command, where the average age of sailors was 19 and a half, you could see accountability in action at all times. You especially saw it when an order was given that a plane about to launch suddenly must be switched out for another and kept on board.

Trump is not the problem. He is the symptom of the problem where Americans no longer believe that the system works for them.

I believe we should be investing in the potential of nuclear technology based on thorium, to end the use of plutonium and lead to much safer nuclear power plants, less toxic nuclear waste, and less opportunities for nuclear weapons proliferation.

The United States must ensure that Iran does not attain nuclear weapons, as this poses a direct threat to our interests, including Israel, and would in all likelihood provoke a regional arms race.

The Iran deal was working. As a solution to the problem of Iran developing nuclear weapons, it was actually working quite well.

We must end semi-automatic weapons that are used for war. We don't want those in the streets of America and that's why I've got to go to the people on this, not just the elected representatives and Senate, just like I did in my district.

Certainly, the JCPOA was not a perfect agreement. It did not deal with the threat from Iranian missiles, or their support for violent extremism. And it contains a 'sunset clause,' meaning it expires after a decade. But it was accomplishing the one goal it set out to achieve: stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

I want to be a public servant, not a politician.