Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Amy McGrath

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Amy Melinda McGrath is an American former Marine fighter pilot and former political candidate from Kentucky. McGrath was the first woman to fly a combat mission for the Marine Corps, as well as the first to pilot the F/A-18 on a combat mission. During her 20 years of service in the Marine Corps, McGrath flew 89 combat missions against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Toward the end of her service, McGrath worked domestically as a political adviser, a liaison officer, and an instructor at the United States Naval Academy.

American - Politician | Born: June 3, 1975

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With regard to women, I'm not running as a woman - 'Vote for me!' But the fact of the matter is we have a very low percentage of women in our Legislature in this country compared to other nations in the western world.

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My childhood dream was never to be a politician.

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Mitch McConnell is not well liked. Many Kentuckians feel that he has left them behind, that he is a part of the D.C. sort of swamp, the system that has left so many Kentuckians behind, that is really dysfunctional.

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I left home at 18, but I still voted in Kentucky. Every holiday, I came home to Kentucky.

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I'm one-hundred percent pro-choice. I align with everything Emily's List aligns with.

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The fake news, the divisiveness, the labeling of every side. It's wrong, and it's not America.

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Government shutdowns are so stupid. From my perspective, somebody who's been in government, been in the military, worked with federal government workers in the State Department, in USAID and in the Department of Defense - you're hurting them.

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Part of the problem with politics is we don't have people who want to get in the fray because of guys like Sen. McConnell, who essentially invented negative campaigning.

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Like most Americans, I am tired of the partisan politics that keep our government from passing common-sense legislation to improve the lives of Americans.

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In the Senate, I will put people before politics.

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We need a senator who fights for things like affordable health care, college and technical school, not tax cuts for wealthy donors. That doesn't mean free college or Medicare for All, I'm against that.

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I'm very concerned about President Trump and his policy by tweet.

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In the Navy, the captain doesn't leave the bridge when the ship is in distress. It's a pretty basic leadership principle.

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You can't drain the swamp, as President Trump has touted doing, without getting rid of Mitch McConnell.

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During my 20 years as a Marine, I served three combat tours and as a Congressional Fellow advising a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee on defense and foreign policy. I went on to serve in the Pentagon as Marine Corps' liaison to the State Department.

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We can make American governing institutions better, but we can't make them better if nobody wants to go into them because we're bashing them.

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When I left Kentucky at age 18 to attend the U.S. Naval Academy and lifted my right hand to swear the oath to defend our Constitution, I did so willingly.

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The selflessness and service of the veterans I have met and served with are the living embodiment of what America and American values mean to me.

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Voters are fed up with politicians like Sen. McConnell who show themselves vacant of any moral compass or patriotic courage, and whose public statements are guided by just one metric - which team you are on.

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Senator McConnell has always won in the past because he's had a bigger blow horn. He's always had tens of millions of dollars more than his opponent.

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I know how to work on a mission.

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We need to make meaningful, uh, adjustments, here in this country with criminal justice, with education inequities, with real racial inequities in terms of health care.

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Marines know we're all on the same team.

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We must demand a more civil tone and tenor in our politics.

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I had this dream. I wanted to fly fighter jets. And that's what I did.

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If President Trump has good ideas, I'll be for them.

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With regard to the more moderates, I have spent 20 years as a United States Marine. I'm a little more realistic when it comes to some of these foreign policy, defense policy issues, some of the things we do overseas. And so I really feel like I can connect to the more moderates.

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Trust me, I've been to countries where there's no government. And our government's pretty damned good.

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We can actually do some very practical things that can help people's lives and make life better for Kentuckians and that's what I'm all about.

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I'm somebody who looks at things through the lens of being a wife and being a mother and being a United States Marine.

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Our constitutional principles, which you can say, 'Well, they're on a paper and they'll never be taken away.Folks, we have to fight for those every day. Freedom of the press - you think that can't go away? OK. Maybe.

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Kentuckians voted for Donald Trump because they wanted to drain the swamp and lower prescription drug prices. A lot of what has stood in the way of what Donald Trump promised is Senator McConnell.

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Growing up in northern Kentucky, honesty, integrity and character were revered traits, and - with my family - I looked to the greatest generation of Americans who saved the world during World War II.

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I think there are enough restrictions on abortion and they're reasonable.

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Folks don't always win the first time they run.

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Trump promised to bring back jobs. He promised to lower drug prices for so many Kentuckians. And that is very important.

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Part of that problem is women don't run. We don't run for office. It's not that people are overwhelmingly voting against us. We just don't step up to the plate. So we have to do a better job of recruiting women and getting women to step up.

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Providing access to a public option for health insurance would allow all Americans the choice to buy a government insurance plan, much like I buy for my family as a military retiree.

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I believe health care is a right, not a privilege, not something only the wealthiest 1 percent can afford it should have.

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Every Kentuckian deserves to be able to visit the doctor and get the treatment they need, and no one should have to choose between filling their prescriptions and paying their rent.

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My husband's a Republican.

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I'm not a polished politician.

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I've spent my adult life in the national security realm.

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We need a new generation of leaders who can put their country over their political party to do what's right for Kentucky and are not bought off by special interests.

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The allegations surrounding whether President Trump pressured the Ukrainian leader to investigate the family of his political rival is, if true, a disgraceful betrayal of the oath of office and demands immediate action by Congress.

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We're seeing that the well-funded, sort of 'having the establishment backing' doesn't really help you. In fact, you know people are sort of tired of that - they don't trust the Democratic National Party. Many Democrats in Kentucky don't. They are looking for somebody who is honest.

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Everything that's wrong in Washington had to start someplace.

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For my family and my neighbors, America stood for something real, something tangible. America, and therefore Americans, stood for freedom, family, truth and justice.

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I am further left, I am more progressive, than anyone in the state of Kentucky.

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We'd never be talking about Senator McGrath saying anything about state and local governments should be going bankrupt. I'd never even think about it.

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We deserve better than a win-at-all-costs mentality.

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The ACA is far from perfect, but through Kynect and expanded Medicaid, it enabled more than 400,000 Kentuckians - especially those with pre-existing conditions - to get affordable health insurance for the first time.

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I'm not going to apologize for serving my country.

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You know, I think that with Judge Kavanaugh, yeah, I probably would have voted for him.

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I don't think the government should be involved in a woman's right to choose what is happening to her body.

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Many Kentuckians are benefiting from it. Even Republican Kentuckians are benefiting from the Affordable Care Act.

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If you look at why many Kentuckians voted for President Trump, for example, they voted for an outsider. They voted for somebody who was gonna shake up the system. He promised to drain the swamp. And, you know, my message is you can't do that until you get rid of Senator McConnell.

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If you want more of the same, Mitch McConnell is your guy. He is the ultimate insider. He is the epitome of dysfunction in Washington.

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I have never called myself a pro-Trump Democrat.

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Every Kentuckian, regardless of background, should have access to a job that pays a living wage.

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