Jerrold Nadler Quotations

The other thing that I wanted to say -- and that I will say at this point, even though the chairman is not going to listen,

When they start helping us and dealing with these problems fairly, then they'll have the right to expect intelligent gratitude from New Yorkers.

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

I don't think she's pandering. She's saying what she believes. I don't think she's pandering any more than the mayor could be said to have been pandering when he said the same thing.

If the House Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they should make their case to the American people and elect a president and a majority in both Houses of Congress prepared to do that.

There is good borrowing and bad borrowing, ... If we permit our infrastructure to slowly collapse, our economy will slowly collapse.

He is unwilling to do anything that might embarrass the administration.

I thought they were exactly as direct as they could be given the fact that they're ... a legal deposition, and any lawyer will tell any client to be very careful in his answers under oath, ... I think it reads as any statement under oath would.

It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.

I witnessed firsthand what happens when the federal government fails to protect public health after disaster strikes, ... The long-term impact on human health -- and public confidence in government -- is devastating. Sierra Club's report is a wake-up call that it could happen again, and I confess that I am concerned for the rescue workers and residents facing the aftermath of the Katrina Hurricane. We need a full investigation of what happened at Ground Zero and what our government plans to do in all future emergencies.

It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public option, universal coverage, an end to insurance policy rescissions, and no restrictions against covering people with pre-existing conditions.

Today's events only confirm that we need to know answers to the larger question: Did this administration deliberately lie to Congress in order to obtain its authorization to go to war?

Why is this being rushed through? To embarrass the president and the first lady, who is considering running for the Senate in New York,

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

We've pushed and pushed and gotten nowhere, ... The only time we've gotten anywhere is because Hillary pushed for it.

The timing is highly suspect, ... Starr investigated this. There is no evidence of anything new, and Starr decided that there is nothing to indict.

Anyone who thought the president should be impeached beforehand will still think so, and anyone who thought the president should not be impeached will think that,

This is a bad bill, ... These are cosmetic changes that do little to change the Patriot Act from the way it was passed four years ago.

It may be that there's some weird terrorist out there who really wants to destroy a Kansas wheat field. I doubt it,

It's remarkable. Either they have something to hide or they don't give a damn,

It's important, if we're going to call ourselves a democracy, that everybody more or less have the right to vote,

They want to wrap themselves in 9/11 and wrap themselves in the flag. But the fact of the matter is they don't have the right to do that.

I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't do controlled scientific experiments with real people, normally.

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

I assume they will vote -- with some Democratic votes, but mostly not -- to conduct this inquiry, ... as long as the Republicans are intent on a partisan witch hunt there is going to be no consensus.

...And it leaks today in the middle of the Democratic national Convention?