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Sherrod Brown Quotes

From opposing unfair trade deals to fighting for a fair financial system, Hillary Clinton has shown she puts working families first. She knows as president that her first job will be creating jobs for the middle class. I am proud to endorse her today because I know she will keep Ohio moving forward.

– Sherrod Brown

We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces – or at the very least a plan for it – something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.

– Sherrod Brown

We should forcefully call out China whenever it violates international standards.

– Sherrod Brown

I look back at history, and some of the worst governments we’ve ever had, you know one of the first things they ever did? They went after the trade unions.

– Sherrod Brown

When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises.

– Sherrod Brown

I have zero interest in being vice president.

– Sherrod Brown

I welcome the work that the Clinton Global Initiative has done with groups and individuals like Bono and all that’s happened around the world.

– Sherrod Brown

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage – and that’s good news for Ohio.

– Sherrod Brown

Ohio workers and Ohio manufacturers already know that we are, in fact, in a trade war, and the Chinese have done very well, thank you.

– Sherrod Brown

I see all four presidential candidates, the leading four, Cruz and Trump and Sanders and Clinton, all oppose TPP.

– Sherrod Brown

Anyone who’s tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

– Sherrod Brown

There are people working in Mahoning Valley in steel, in Findlay, Ohio, in rubber, in many other places because we’ve enforced trade deals.

– Sherrod Brown

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

– Sherrod Brown

When China fails to live up to its obligations, we push back – sort of. We accept arguments from Chinese leaders that they are a developing country that needs time to reform.

– Sherrod Brown

I love working for the people of Ohio, and I have a lot more work to do as their senator.

– Sherrod Brown

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio’s working families.

– Sherrod Brown

The Ohio Legislature’s passed a law to allow concealed weapons in day care centers, but interesting: this same Legislature, in its wisdom, doesn’t allow concealed weapons in the statehouse.

– Sherrod Brown

Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall.

– Sherrod Brown

We should not mislead the Iraqis into thinking they have unlimited time to reach a settlement. The longer they think that, the less likely they will be to act.

– Sherrod Brown

We’re a country of rule of law, and rule of law doesn’t move fast, especially in an entity as big the U.S. government.

– Sherrod Brown

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country’s history.

– Sherrod Brown

Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you’re working. You get help when you’re not.

– Sherrod Brown

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it’s been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

– Sherrod Brown

We see – every week or two, we see another story of a small business that went out of business because Donald Trump.

– Sherrod Brown

Ohioans, I think, in large numbers, have felt that the government has not been on their side in all of these issues: on pensions, on the cost of prescription drugs, on the health-care system generally, on jobs, on trade agreements.

– Sherrod Brown

The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.

– Sherrod Brown

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

– Sherrod Brown

The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.

– Sherrod Brown

People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.

– Sherrod Brown

This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the drug and insurance industries. America’s seniors were an afterthought.

– Sherrod Brown

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