Tim Bishop Quotes

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.

The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people.

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.

Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.