Quotes from Danny K. Davis

We borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War, and so there was a debt owed. We paid it. If we have done that for 235 years, if we have done it ever since this country has existed, we can do it again.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

Everyone who has succeeded in correcting their wrong should have the right to work.

#BlackLivesMatter has raised the bar in our national dialog: Addressing economic inequality is necessary but not sufficient. It is also necessary to directly confront racial injustice.

I think life is the sum total of your experiences.

The thing that I guess I've never understood is why people persist that I carried a crown on a pillow to Reverend Moon. I never did. I took it to his wife.

Culture is central to what makes us human.

I grew up in rural Arkansas, and I'm afraid that begging is not part of our characteristics.

People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.

I try to bridge the gap between police and local communities.

I've got hundreds of friends who are police officers. I work with the police.

Some of the huge tax breaks that we gave to the wealthiest 1 percent of the population in this country during the Bush era have contributed significantly to the deficit.

The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

Sickle cell does not have the priority in this country that it had in the 1960s, when I started working on it. Congress has been cutting everything that wasn't nailed down.

Our nation's attitudes toward trade have been shaped by the evolving struggle over who has been helped and who has been disadvantaged by trade policy as our economy has developed.

To ensure fair competition, there must be effective controls on currency manipulation, and monopoly pricing needs to be outlawed on such items as intellectual property, especially pharmaceuticals.

I just want to believe that, as a citizen in this country, that I have equal protection under the law and that I can have a situation assessed fairly, that people can look at it, and that a court of law can determine what the outcome is.

I have a tendency to campaign positively and campaign on issues, not try to tear someone else down.

I believe in our free market system.

The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.

Trade and globalization are here to stay.

Universal coverage is a critical goal, but even if every man and woman, every parent and every child in America woke up with an insurance card in their hands, they would still need a place to go for health care.

I'm a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward.

The best protection against recidivism is a job.