Jeff Merkley Quotations

There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."

What [Bernie] Sanders has done is he's focused the nation on the fact that these things are not inevitable. They are the result of policies. We can do better to create an economy that works well for working Americans.

Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed.

That's a question best put to Bernie Sanders himself, but I think that he will probably put forward ideas that are related to the corrupting role of Citizens United and Buckley versus Valeo court decisions and the need to restore a by-and-for-the-people republic envisioned in our Constitution instead of the of-, by- and for-the-most-powerful system that we have right now.

Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get.

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.