Jackie Speier Quotations

There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.

When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.

Seniors and the disabled will soon have new health coverage options now that the Governor has signed SB 375 into law,

Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.

My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.

My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.

I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.

I believe the protection for consumers in the state has not been a high priority,

He has the responsibility to meet with the president and make the case. People want to know why California continues to be the ATM for the rest of the country.

He has the responsibility to meet with the president and make the case, ... People want to know why California continues to be the ATM for the rest of the country.

Labor has only as much influence as the Chamber of Commerce.

I think it?s one of the most under-utilized constitutional offices, ... I want to change that. I want to turn that office into the guardian of higher education.

I think this is the best way to deter high-risk offenders -- including sexual predators -- from committing new crimes because we will know where they are if it happens.

It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.

People have a right to surf the Web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world. The Internet marketplace has matured - and it's time for consumers' protections to keep pace.

We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.

We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.

We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of terrorism - by making sure our infrastructure is secure and by working to minimize threats as much as possible.

When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

To me, this kind of malfeasance or nonfeasance is precisely what the public cannot tolerate.

When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.

Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.

is just as great today as it was 25 years ago.

The shots rang out. People ran into the brush, some under the plane. I ran under the plane along with congressman Ryan, trying to hide by a wheel and pretend I was dead.

As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.

This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without a doubt.

It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas.

It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.

The truth of the matter is they are getting paid to do (state) jobs that the public perceives they're committed to 24/7. They accepted the positions knowing what the parameters are.

In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

In terms of transparency in total compensation, we need to look at what's a reasonable number, and to what extent it's appropriate.

Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

What a gun does to a person who survives is devastating as well. Whether it`s the surgeries, I had over ten, the years of physical therapy, the emotional and physical scars that you endure and have to come to grips with the fact that you are different.

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova.