Quotes By Charles Rangel

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.

I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states.

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

My father was absolutely no good.

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

No one looks forward to a recount.

If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.

Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

We don't windsurf in Harlem.

I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.