Quotes from Bill Foster

The freedoms and prosperity we enjoy in America are thanks to the brave men and women who have served in our armed forces.

There's a fundamental question that everyone has to answer: What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man? It's not something that science helps you answer at all. It's one of these questions like, Who are you gong to marry? Science doesn't really help you with the question.

When I first ran for Congress, I decided that I would not take pledges to vote for or against any issue. I believe the practice of taking pledges contributes to the worst of the partisan gridlock in Washington, preventing many members of Congress from even considering a reasonable compromise offered by the other side.

The NLRB provides important protections to American workers.

It is important to remember the purpose of health care reform: to make sure Americans have access to quality, affordable health care - especially those individuals who were being denied by their insurance companies because they weren't profitable customers.

As we continue to work to pass comprehensive immigration reform, we must take action to stop these predators who are exploiting immigrants attempting to play by the rules.

History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.

People are people, regardless of who they love or what gender they relate to.

One of the fundamental scientific discoveries of the dog-human relationship is that when a dog looks into his master's eyes, you have a release of oxytocin - which is the trust hormone, the love hormone.

Science has improved public health, taken us to the moon, and allowed us to understand the origins of our universe. It also has given us the tools to solve problems now instead of reacting to them after it is too late.

Those who promote hatred, bigotry, and fear do not represent America and do not represent us.

The fight for a truly inclusive nation that embraces its diversity is not over and perhaps will never be.

As we face tough decisions in Washington, we must never forget our responsibility to protect Medicare and preserve it for future generations.

If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there's a housing bubble, or just say that the mortgage on a property cannot be larger than the value of the property three years ago, the amount of human misery that would've been avoided would've been enormous.

Alan Greenspan is going to go down in history as one of the worst Federal Reserve chairmen ever.

I believe we need a balanced, bipartisan approach to debt reduction that includes a combination of spending cuts, investments in economic growth, and simplification of the tax code that closes corporate loopholes that incentivize companies to ship jobs overseas.

I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism.

'Too big to fail' is fine for restaurant chains. If Denny's fails, it's fine for this economy. You can always go down to the TGIFs. But that's not the same for large-scale investment companies.

Every person deserves to be treated fairly under the law.

Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what's true but what he can convince a jury is true.

As someone who started a small business from scratch, I know how important it is for families and for communities to have strong job creation.

We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world.

Measles may not spread as fast as erroneous sound bites and tweets, but they both have the potential to cause a great amount of damage.

There are a number of much less expensive alternatives to detaining immigrants than locking them up somewhere.