Louise Slaughter Quotes

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.
Louise Slaughter

Government, Integrity, Honesty

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
Louise Slaughter

Power, Cannot, Stand

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.
Louise Slaughter

Abortion, Preventing, Opposed

Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.
Louise Slaughter

Beautiful, Hurt, Sexy

That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong.
Louise Slaughter

Time, Bad, Children

The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.
Louise Slaughter

Forward, Moving, Far

And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.
Louise Slaughter

Family, Health, Women

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.
Louise Slaughter

Science, Concerned, Disregard

Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.
Louise Slaughter

Person, May, Country

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.
Louise Slaughter

Health, Women, Children

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.
Louise Slaughter

College, Stand, Pay

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
Louise Slaughter

Health, Women, Care

Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.
Louise Slaughter

Family, Health, Women

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.
Louise Slaughter

Public, Disturbed, Clothing

If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
Louise Slaughter

Working, Nation, Reading

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.
Louise Slaughter

Difficult, Times, Balance

Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born.
Louise Slaughter

Future, Before, Born

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.
Louise Slaughter

Women, Cannot, Poor

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.
Louise Slaughter

Wife, May, Words

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.
Louise Slaughter

Job, Training, Military

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.
Louise Slaughter

Women, Men, Woman

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
Louise Slaughter

Women, Best, Care

Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.
Louise Slaughter

Women, Through, Vote

We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.
Louise Slaughter

Sports, School, Stronger

We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.
Louise Slaughter

Research, Lead, Millions

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: August 14, 1929

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