Charles B. Rangel quote: "Since January 2003, at the height of the debate on the possible unilateral strike against Iraq, I have advocated for a reinstatement of the military draft to ensure a more equitable representation of people making sacrifices in wars in which the United States is engaged."

I still remember March 31, 1981, when a deeply disturbed John Hinckley Jr. took aim at President Ron...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared inter...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

By requiring all 30 million Americans age 18 to 25 to perform two years of national service, in the ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always supp...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

No one looks forward to a recount.
CHARLES B. RANGEL

A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willi...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards t...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable caree...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Our immigration policy should be driven by what is in the best interest of this great country and th...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to particip...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the f...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcom...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sough...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the v...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its afterma...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reint...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

America's legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.
CHARLES B. RANGEL

We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pa...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Ma...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branc...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and pres...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations speciali...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become pr...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisone...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Since we replaced the compulsory military draft with an all-volunteer force in 1973, our nation has ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felon...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil.
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Supporting mental wellness is crucial to any goal of decreasing gun violence in America.
CHARLES B. RANGEL

As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic just...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to de...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, whe...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their rep...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should b...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

To honor the legacy of veterans and the democratic principles they fought for, I am glad that I intr...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

What are we Democrats fighting for? We are not fighting for salvation and going to heaven. But we ar...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagm...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Manufactured scandals prohibit public servants from doing the job they were elected or appointed to ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the we...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address ...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America ha...
CHARLES B. RANGEL

I think America and the world wants us to show the outrage not by rhetoric, but by taking action,
CHARLES RANGEL

From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a ...
CHARLES RANGEL

I know the Republicans want to have a political gimmick to have on Valentine's day, and that's what ...
CHARLES RANGEL

And yet, Republicans have held hostage every penny of relief until the Senate passes their special i...
CHARLES RANGEL

The whole Republican rationale for passing such a big tax cut is that we needed to send the surpluse...
CHARLES RANGEL

We've opened up our doors to Mexico, Central and South America, to all of Asia, and here is the rich...
CHARLES RANGEL

This little kid who was found abandoned in the ocean brought a face to the people who were in Miami ...
CHARLES RANGEL

I'm not certain that voters are sophisticated enough to see this as Republican wrongdoing rather tha...
CHARLES RANGEL

George Bush is our Bull Connor,
CHARLES RANGEL

I think it's wrong, whether it's President Clinton or President Bush, to take this extraordinary act...
CHARLES RANGEL

quickly conceived and hastily thrown together.
CHARLES RANGEL

The mayor should really stop drinking,
CHARLES RANGEL

You can no longer raise money and support those people in Washington and say you're not one of them,...
CHARLES RANGEL

This is our business, ... At the end of the day, these are our kids.
CHARLES RANGEL

I truly believe that there's a little bit of Rosa Parks in all Americans who have the courage to say...
CHARLES RANGEL

Essentially, they've targeted the most vulnerable in our communities -- children, the aged, the blin...
CHARLES RANGEL

We would like to know which of the president's recommendation's he would like to drop, ... We only h...
CHARLES RANGEL

It's not 'spic' or 'nigger' any more. They say 'let's cut taxes.'
CHARLES RANGEL

The Republicans have sequestered themselves in a room in order to piece together a political bill th...
CHARLES RANGEL

It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision tod...
CHARLES RANGEL

Clearly everyone wants a tax cut but you can't have a tax cut for a surplus that you don't have,
CHARLES RANGEL

The more light that shines on this, the longer it is going to take, ... There are some responsible R...
CHARLES RANGEL

could have been done in a little office somewhere.
CHARLES RANGEL

It's no profile in courage for us to say you are now able to borrow money from your pension fund and...
CHARLES RANGEL

left too many questions unanswered when it comes to Social Security ... [He] says he wants an open r...
CHARLES RANGEL

The president is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the we...
CHARLES RANGEL

get them out of the way.
CHARLES RANGEL

Watch Freddy Ferrer and remember this election; it's not only going to be an election for our city, ...
CHARLES RANGEL

Her biggest asset is her greatest liability: She's not one of the boys in the old boy's network - wh...
CHARLES RANGEL

If the president wants to get serious, he will convene a true summit with leaders from both parties,...
CHARLES RANGEL

If Giuliani thought Hillary Clinton was a candidate, he'd be looking for a job,
CHARLES RANGEL

We don't windsurf in Harlem.
CHARLES RANGEL

isn't awake enough to know what's going on.
CHARLES RANGEL

Sometimes President Uribe is hit with the impact that some facts produce in the public arena. And th...
ALFREDO RANGEL

I not only think he will be re-elected, but he's going to win in the first round. I don't see any ca...
ALFREDO RANGEL

It has generated an environment where to talk badly about Uribe is seen as being unpatriotic, sort o...
ALFREDO RANGEL

He confronts problems very directly and in direct, colloquial language. He has a great capacity for ...
ALFREDO RANGEL

You can put together powerful legal arguments both for and against this, so in the end, it's a polit...
ALFREDO RANGEL

I want to thank you for your investment in this part of town. It's going to help a lot.
BEN RANGEL

This is not a casino now. You are establishing a casino.
BEN RANGEL

We don't know if there's enough space.
BEN RANGEL

What you have just witnessed is the official breakdown of bipartisanship,
CHARLIE RANGEL

[Said Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California,] Mr. Rumsfeld has been engaged in a coverup from the start on...
CHARLIE RANGEL

George Bush is our 'Bull' Connor, ... And if that doesn't get to you, nothing will be able to get to...
CHARLIE RANGEL

If the weapons are there and we know they're there, then my God, let's go get the weapons and destro...
CHARLIE RANGEL

attempting to play both the race and the class-warfare cards.
CHARLIE RANGEL

While we wait for good things to happen for ourselves, we can do good things for other people.
DAVID RANGEL

Realise that the love within is the infinite love and it is all that is.
ANA RANGEL

I just hope that the president and the Republican leaders distance themselves from this and find som...
CHARLIE RANGEL

believe that our government has an obligation to take care of its people.
CHARLIE RANGEL

and you're poor in this country, it's not an inconvenience. It's a death sentence.
CHARLIE RANGEL

Eating a huge home cooked Christmas dinner was his personal favorite. Evan would look around after e...
DAVID RANGEL

It took about a week to pull the proposal together. We were trying to get everything out at the same...
JANET RANGEL

Something that I believe is a cool thing is that all the kids that participate are all winners. They...
JANET RANGEL

His hands were tingling and he was sweating under falling snowflakes.
DAVID RANGEL

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.
CHARLES B. ROUSS

Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our...
CHARLES B. JOHNSON

Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
CHARLES B. JOHNSON

The ebb and flow of will is like the movements of the tides... if we cease our vain struggles and la...
CHARLES B. NEWCOMB

Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way.
CHARLES B. NEWCOMB

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for thos...
CHARLES B. NEWCOMB

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are– bald or old or...
CHARLES B. HANDY

Before, they were openly calling for Chavez's overthrow. Now, the call is to assassinate him,
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL

If he said that, he's an idiot, ... They can do whatever they want here, say whatever they want, inc...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL

It's never enough, given the magnitude of the tragedy, solidarity is never enough,
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL

Past tragedies have given people an opportunity to prosper. Now we face the challenge of ensuring al...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL

The ball is in the U.S. court after this criminal statement by a citizen of that country, ... It's h...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL

the best relations with the United States.
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL

We need international help,
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL

And is Saudi Arabia a democracy, or Kuwait?
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL

I think it's strange that such a pragmatic country ... is reacting this way to a perfectly serious a...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL

Until now everything has depended on Mexico, they took the initiative to attack President Chavez and...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL

I don't see why the United States has to get involved in this issue, ... It is a decision involving ...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL

We have intelligence reports that some of them are CIA, ... The president's decision was based on re...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING

My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING

Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING

Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING

I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING

I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING

Since January 2003, at the height of the debate on the possible unilateral strike against Iraq, I have advocated for a reinstatement of the military draft to ensure a more equitable representation of people making sacrifices in wars in which the United States is engaged.

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Charles B. Rangel

Since January 2003, at the height of the debate on the possible unilateral strike against Iraq, I have advocated for a reinstatement of the military draft to ensure a more equitable representation of people making sacrifices in wars in which the United States is engaged.

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