“When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of...” — Jackie Speier Quote

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.

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

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.

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.

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.

Music is the voice of a generation, and pushing the boundaries of creativity is the basis of evolution.

You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.