Bennie Thompson Quotes


"Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas."
- Bennie Thompson
(Related: Education, Quality, Defense, Tax, Public, Security)

"Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company."
- Bennie Thompson
(Related: Company, Corporate, Corporations, Practice, President)

"History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work."
- Bennie Thompson
(Related: History, Work, America, Benefits, Will)

"I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us."
- Bennie Thompson
(Related: America, Confidence, Corporate, First)

"If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told."
- Bennie Thompson
(Related: Lie, Race, School, Talk, Want, Will)

"Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal."
- Bennie Thompson
(Related: America, Benefits, Congress, Nation, Result, Treatment)

"Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not."
- Bennie Thompson
"Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda."
- Bennie Thompson
(Related: Wisdom, Successful, Court, Rights, Justice, Law, Temperament)