Quotes By Patty Murray

Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.

For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty.