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Dianne Feinstein quotes

Ocupation: United States Senator

Life: b. June 22, 1933

Birthday: June 22

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We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.

Topics: Gun, Hunting, Law, Senators, Duck Hunting

quote if i could have gotten 51 votes in the senate of the united states for an outright ban dianne feinstein Quotes

I`ve passed on a number of bills. I`ve studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated.

Topics: Numbers, Bills, Constitution

Quotation Dianne Feinstein Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something Quotes

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Topics: Leadership, People, Political, Ability To Communicate

Quotation Dianne Feinstein I ve passed on a number of bills I ve Quotes

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

Topics: Women, Suits, Toughness, Women In History

Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old. You can be the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and one of the most recognizable and widely-respected veteran public servants in your nation. But if you are female while all of those things, men who you defeat in arguments will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They'll patronize you and say they admire your passion, 'sweetie,' but they deal in facts, not your silly, girly feelings. It's inescapable. You can set your watch by it.

Topics: Girly, Silly, Passion, Public Servants

If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it.

source: - "60 Minutes" Interview, www.youtube.com. February 05, 1995.

Topics: Gun, America, United States, Disarming, Pro Gun Control

Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.

Topics: Ocean, Numbers, Impact, Industrial Revolution

Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.

Topics: Pain, Love You, Emotional, Abuse And Violence, Domestic Abuse

All vets are mentally ill in some way and government should prevent them from owning firearms.

Topics: Government, Vets, Way

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

Topics: Recovery, Survival

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Topics: Memorable, Winning, May, Winning Is Everything

And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me.

Topics: Determination, Husband, Gun, Concealed Weapons, Firearms

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

Topics: Gun, America, Fundamentals, Fundamental Rights, Gun Ban

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

Topics: Children, School, Accountability, Special Education, School Districts

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

Topics: Weapons, Human Nature, Realizing

After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, .. Right now, the victims of Hurricane Katrina need our help. Entire communities have been destroyed. Families have been torn apart. Many are still missing. Tens of thousands remain homeless. As the recovery proceeds, we in the Senate pledge to do everything in our power to help rebuild the shattered lives across the Gulf Coast.

Topics: Recovery, Government, Profound, Hurricane Katrina

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

Topics: Race, Effort, Nuclear, Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation

Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice, .. I ran as a pro-choice Democrat, and she fills Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes, and they are critical shoes.

Topics: Shoes, Issues, People, Sandra Day O Connor

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

Topics: Safety, Drug, Physicians, Pharmacist, Unethical

While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is not constrained by geography - it can be accomplished in a number of different ways - which is what makes this threat so real and persuasive.

Topics: Real, Distance, Iraq, Biological Weapons

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

Topics: Country, Rights, People, Armed Forces, Armed Forces Day

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

Topics: Gone, Wells

The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation.

Topics: Country, Sex, Opportunity

An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

Topics: Looks, Balloons, Impressive

I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.

Topics: Thinking, Speech, Politics

It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.

Topics: Numbers, Government, Cells

Our supportfor assault weapons ban is very broad...I think we've got all the police, we have all the mayors virtually - the conference of mayors, mayors against guns. We have medical experts, we have virtually dozens of religious organizations of every creed supporting us. We have just lists and lists.

Topics: Religious, Gun, Thinking, Assault Weapons Ban

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

Topics: Russia, Wind, Achievement

If I could have banned them all...I would have!

Topics: Gun, Gun Control, Banned

I believe the Visa Waiver Program, it essentially is the soft underbelly of the visa system. Now we have 35 countries in it. We have 16 million people coming in. I believe the overstays still run about 40 percent of the undocumented population. In other words, there's 40 percent that you really don't know where it came from is what I'm trying to say. And I've always suspected people come in on a visitor's visa and they just decide to stay, and that's a large part of the undocumented population.

Topics: Country, Running, Believe, Waiver

The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.

Topics: Gun, Second Amendment, Needs, National Guard

What we're going to see is the emergence of the lone wolf rather than the planning of large numbers of people to carry out large attacks...Explosives are getting more sophisticated.

Topics: Numbers, People, Planning, Lone Wolf

Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts to solve this problem, will produce an Armageddon in the American population in those states where there is a big problem.

Topics: Attitude, Ostriches, Effort, Constant Rejection

It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.

Topics: Immigration, Borders, Myth

Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.

Topics: Believe, Flames, America, This I Believe

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

Topics: Doctors, Goal, Today, Shareholders

It appears to be a case of revenge run amok.

Topics: Running, Revenge, Cases

Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and sexually abused by a dating partner.

Topics: Girl, School, Knowing, Knowing Someone, Abuse And Violence

So there will be a bill. We've been working on it now for a year.

Topics: Gun, Years, Gun Control

Global warming is real. It is happening today. It is being charted by our satellites. It is being charted by our scientists. It is being charted by those of us in this body, and I think the real key is if we are ready to admit that fact and take the action to make the necessary conversion.

Topics: Real, Thinking, Keys, Satellites

It (marijuana) will still be legal under federal law.

Topics: Marijuana, Law, Stills

There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.

source: - "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 9, 2013.

Topics: Nsa, Honest, Persons

I am not a high-tech techie, but I have been told that is not possible.

Topics: Nsa, Techie

It is abundantly clear that a total review of all intelligence programs is necessary so that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are fully informed as to what is actually being carried out by the intelligence community.

Topics: Nsa, Community, Program, Intelligence Community

Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again.

Topics: Sacrifice, Rights, Atheism

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.

Topics: Law, Cities, Enforcement, City Streets

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

Topics: Believe, Medical Insurance, Reform, Shareholders, Nonprofits

I think the greatest threat to the privacy of Americans is the drone, and the use of the drone and the very few regulations that are on it today, and the booming industry of commercial drones.

source: - "Director Mueller Told Senate Panel FBI Uses Drones". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. June 20, 2013.

Topics: Thinking, Drones, Use

And in an issue with this kind of concern to a committee that bears the oversight responsibility, I think you can see that we're very dismayed about it .

Topics: Responsibility, Thinking, Issues, Oversight, Dismayed

It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.

Topics: People, Credit, Belief

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

Topics: Doorways

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

Topics: America, Holes, Port, Homeland Security

[On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual orientation.

Topics: Sex, Military, Believe

Women are beginning to feel that they are not fairly represented. As we say, 2% may be fine for fat in milk, but not for the United States Senate.

Topics: United States, May, Milk

A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them....Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.

Topics: Cutting, Men, Issues

I've passed on a number of bills. I've studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated...

source: - "Fireworks: Ted Cruz vs. Dianne Feinstein On Gun Rights". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 14, 2013.

Topics: Numbers, Bills, Constitution

We need steel spines, not weak knees when it comes to political independence in the Department of Justice.

source: - "Hearing For Deputy Attorney General Nominee Focuses On Sessions, Russia". "All Things Considered" with Carrie Johnson, kbbi.org. March 7, 2017.

Topics: Justice, Political, Independence, Political Independence

I have very deep concern about the legacy of the Rehnquist court and its efforts to restrict congressional authority to enact legislation by adopting a very narrow view of several provisions of the Constitution, including the commerce clause and the 14th Amendment. This trend, I believe, if continued, would restrict and could even prevent the Congress from addressing major environmental and social issues of the future.

source: - Dianne Feinstein's opening statement at U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

Topics: Believe, Issues, Views, 14th Amendment, Social Issues

If the president Donald Trump thinks he can fire Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein and replace him with someone who will shut down the investigation, he's in for a rude awakening.

Topics: Thinking, Rude, President

People who travel should be on guard. All our military, our police and I think the word has been spread. And people know to be careful to watch, to report. Something that looks suspicious to you, don't be embarrassed to go to an authority and say, "Look, I saw this and it seems suspicious to me."

source: - Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

Topics: Military, Thinking, People

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

source: - Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Topics: Rights, Play, Roles

There is a worry about a bomb being implanted in a human being and placed on an airplane. So, I think there is a lot to worry about.

source: - Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

Topics: Airplane, Thinking, Worry

With the right person in place, a very distressing chapter in the Justice Department's history can be closed and the process of restoring its credibility as a strong and independent department can begin.

Topics: Strong, Independent, Justice

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

source: - Speech at U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

Topics: Rights, Arena, Individual

I'm one that believes that Samuel Alito appointment on the Supreme Court is a pivotal appointment. And because he replace Sandra Day O'Connor and because she was the fifth vote on 148 cases, you well could be a very key and decisive vote.

source: - Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Topics: Believe, Keys, Vote, Sandra Day O Connor, Pivotal

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