Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Capuano - Page 2

I will never support a draft.

Look, there is always something of a fine balancing act to what we do, but ultimately I believe what matters most of the time to me is what matters to my constituents. That doesn't mean I haven't gotten into trouble at times for taking a stand I believed was right, but may not have been the popular choice.

The times have changed and people do need to change with them and I believe I have done that.

I don't think it's a bad thing to say everybody pays $10 and if you go to vote you get your $10 back. And if you don't vote that money goes to support the election process.

Anybody who wants to cut the gas tax is going to have to suggest to me how we get the money to repair our roads and bridges.

I just don't think there are that many people who will vote for me because I'm a white male or vote against me because I'm a white male.

I've never had a problem with anybody running against me.

I think the average voter wants somebody who has the right philosophy and can combine that with the ability to get something done in Washington.

When I was growing up, the harbor was a place to dump things.

I like working in those dark, smoke-filled rooms in the back. That's what I'm good at.

The one thing about America is you have the freedom to think what you want and do what you want without the government interfering.

I'm happy and very proud that I voted against the Iraq war.

I do not want our society to be one where the government feels free to check your private phone records anytime it pleases.

For me foreign policy is critically important.

Most of my friends are not multi-millionaires.

I've been left to wonder if it's the national Republican Party Scott Brown represents, or the people of Massachusetts? Let me add that I believe it's a fair question to ask of any of us, Republican or Democrat, who have the privilege of being sent to Washington.

Look, when you're in the public life you have to understand, the press - good bad or indifferent - is going to chase you on occasion. When they do, you give them an opportunity to do their job and then you generally get the respect that they'll move out of your way but not always.

Politicians try to see the world through other people's lenses and try to bring people together so that we can have a mutual view of the world - and how do we work together, not from the individual views that we all have.

I really wish everyone at the age of 18 would register and would vote.

Ted Kennedy was a giant - no doubt about it.

It says more about America, what happened that day, than almost anything since. And yet, we tend to forget. None of us forgets on Memorial Day, none of us forgets on Flag Day, none of us forgets on Veterans Day. We should not forget on Bunker Hill Day.

Why do the people in Massachusetts need to have a superdelegate speak on their behalf when they've already voted?

Look, I cannot be a woman of color, you know? And if that's what people care about that's fine. I accept that, I understand that.

If Harvard has a smaller endowment, they are less likely to build a building. And that hurts my construction industry, that hurts my financial services industry.

I've never been good at raising money.

I think there is an obligation - not just a right, but an obligation - to vote.

I am an elected official, a politician who has been very successful in Washington, in city halls and state houses for my entire career. If somebody wants somebody who needs on-the-job training, then they will not be able to vote for me.

There's nothing wrong with new blood, but it has to be balanced as well with people that have been around that know the history of what's happened, know the internal relationships between people, know what you can do and what you can't do.

I think it's right, to have many voices at the table before you send somebody else's child to war.

I don't try to be something I'm not, I don't try to pretend that I'm something I'm not, I don't try to present myself as something I'm not.

Ayanna Pressley and I would probably vote the exact same way on pretty much every vote we'd have on the floor of the House.

I have been disappointed with the way the majority of my colleagues have approached war and peace over the entire time I've been in Congress.

I think Mr. Trump would have benefitted from growing up in my neighborhood. He would have learned the limits of his braggadocio.

In a short campaign there's no way any of us can meet all the voters.

Congress always gets new blood. You have to balance that with people who know what's going on. It's no different than a business, it's no different than your personal life.

I don't think the people run to the polls and vote simply on the basis of identity. Yes, it is a factor, of course we all know that. It's also ethnicity, gender, and gender identity. People do take those factors into account.

Ted Kennedy was a fighter, and I think the people of Massachusetts want and deserve a fighter.

What was Ted Kennedy? Was he not the ultimate insider in Washington, yet maintaining philosophical views, when necessary?

All I've ever done in any campaign I've ever been in is just put myself out there and let people be the judge.

If you're going to have a difference of opinion, I think the difference of opinion should be on a matter of substance.