Quotes from Corrine Brown

I think it is scary anytime anyone is coming at you asking questions.

I believe that tax dollars used to create a new school of engineering for Florida State University, when there is already a successful partnership in place with Florida A&M University, is counterproductive to increasing engineering graduates.

Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs.

I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again.

As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal.

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?

Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation.

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.

I have spent my entire life working to make my community and my country better. And I can't wait to get inside the courtroom to tell my story.

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.

Transportation funding is a win-win for everyone involved.

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

I don't do radio or TV. I do people.

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.

I will let the work I've done speak for me.

I don't want to sound cocky or anything, but I work hard. I work 24/7.

You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.

Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural area of north Florida and include 22 prisons, and convicted felons can't vote.

Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them.