Top 62 Quotes & Sayings by Wayne Messam
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Wayne Messam.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
When you look at a mayor, Americans see mayors favorably. We are at the front line of what Americans are dealing with every day.
Everyday people are graduating from universities with crippling debt, stifling their opportunity for financial mobility, that is what's broken with this country.
Until we address the pervasive structural and interpersonal threats facing communities of color, we will remain unequipped to make equity a reality.
I'm not backed by the super PACs and the big corporations.
I'm passionate about the American Dream because it's not a fictitious thing for me. It's real for me.
I've been defying the odds my entire life.
As president I will push for national student loan forgiveness.
Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans. These performances were based in contempt and gave people an opportunity to act out their prejudices.
I do not believe that the best ideas come from Washington.
I'm not truly convinced solutions are coming out of Washington.
Gerrymandering at its essence is supposed to be used to reflect the changing geography to ensure representation. But we know that politics gets involved and it's used to benefit whoever's in control. That's the problem we have with gerrymandering.
Attempts to minimize the deep racial wounds in our history only set our society as a whole back.
Wayne Messam does not have any financial problems and is a classic American Success Story.
I see that that 'American dream' is slipping away because we're not solving the problems of today, we're not planning for the future.
I'm a business owner.
Military-assault weapons have no place in civilian hands.
Once our construction business began to win more contracts, our business success allowed us to reap the benefits of all the risks we took to start our company and we were able to resolve and settle outstanding fees.
Mayors are known to be problem-solvers.
I encourage you to continue to stay fit and stay active.
My parents immigrated to this country from Jamaica with no more than a fifth-grade education.
The cost of a college degree has skyrocketed out of control.
Miramar took jobs away from China; usually the jobs leave the U.S. and go to China.
The American people deserve to have access to as many qualified candidates as possible, not only the ones who can afford to buy name recognition or who already have it.
Any public official - regardless of political party - who fails to recognize the problem with devaluing subsections of your constituency is unfit to serve and must step aside.
As a son of Jamaican immigrants whose father cut sugarcane as a contract farm worker for over a decade and whose mother was a cook who fed those migrant workers out in the fields, the odds have always been against me growing up in rural South Bay, Fla.
I was the first of my siblings born here in the United States.
It is morally wrong for this country to require our citizens to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to achieve the American Dream.
Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.
Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.
From an emotional standpoint it's very easy to say don't raise taxes, and no one wants to raise taxes.
We cannot allow those with mental illness or record of hate or violence access guns and terrorize this country.
America belongs to all of us. The promise of America belongs to all of us.
My experience at Florida State helped me to have the discipline to prepare as well as to endure challenging spots.
In terms of the Green New Deal, I support the urgency and the end goal of the Green New Deal. I would look to work with our climatologists, economists to propose my own plan and how we would meet those goals.
I'm actually an American success story.
I guess my goal is to be the fittest mayor in the country.
What does Washington experience have to do with meeting the needs of the American people?
When you think about the progress and the progressive issues we are tackling and solving in Miramar, I'm looking to take these issues nationally because the American people need someone who can champion these issues for them.
You only have one vessel. And the more we invest in our bodies, the better we feel about ourselves.
I think a common sense approach that provides health care coverage to all Americans is the best way forward.
I know what it feels like to hit financial turmoil, to be hit with the threat of losing your home. I kept working, I kept looking for resources to improve my situation.
Miramar is known as the aviation hub; many businesses right here in the city are supplying the aviation industry.
I'm sensitive to the resources needed by a small business to get started and keep going.
When you compare mayors to Washington insiders, Americans see that mayors actually get the job done.
My parents' sacrifice and hard work obligated me to be successful, it wasn't an option to fail.
I'm in business to make money. However, I'm a mayor who fought for a living wage. And I believe healthcare should be a right.
Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects.
Obviously as a mayor, I'm in competition with my neighboring cities as well as cities around the country.
People who face discrimination due to the color of their skin, are often obstructed by institutional barriers across our society - from education and housing, to employment and healthcare, to voting rights and the criminal justice system.
We need to reform our immigration system from top to bottom and make sure our country is not only safer for, but also more inclusive of, immigrants.
Black Americans have organized all across this country because we have an unequal justice system, not because anyone demands special privileges.
When you hide behind a veil of your financial business you never know who you're influencing, where your priorities lie. But I think it's important that the American people have some glimpse or some understanding of the financial standing of their commander-In-chief.
The real question should be, what does Washington experience have to do with meeting the needs of the American people?
I feel that this nation should open its doors to any person that would like to contribute to this society.
Black lives matter' doesn't mean that all lives do not matter, rather it is a cry for equal treatment in the greater circle of justice for all Americans.
I just want to share with everyone that no matter what challenges, adversities you face in life, that you can overcome them... and once you overcome those adversities, use your story, your testimony to others, to help others get through their storm.
As one of the largest states in the country, Florida's vibrant diversity is a key part of our nation's story.
The people need someone who's closer to them and the American people need someone who will be their change agent and fight for the issues that are important to them.
When you have a senior citizen who can't afford her prescription medicine, Washington is broken.
I think solving the problems of America is what's good.
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