My party needs to understand that business is not a bad word - especially when it has the word 'small' before it.
— Joe Sestak
Cyberspace is the new domain of warfare.
If you took money out of politics, you'd solve 80 percent of all the problems.
The United States must ensure that Iran does not attain nuclear weapons, as this poses a direct threat to our interests, including Israel, and would in all likelihood provoke a regional arms race.
At the end of the day, Israel is its own self-determining government.
Economic mobility will fix income inequality.
Nobody under 40 carries a comb.
One answer to transportation infrastructure funding is public-private partnerships.
I'm not beholden to one party or any special interests.
I understand the challenge with student loans. But what about the labor force, the enlisted men and women, so to speak, of ships. Those who work with their hands and their minds. We need to do what we do in the military, is we train and retrain.
Your U.S. military has the best child care in the nation. Full, paid family and medical leave benefits. Why aren't we doing that to empower our workforce?
Certainly, the JCPOA was not a perfect agreement. It did not deal with the threat from Iranian missiles, or their support for violent extremism. And it contains a 'sunset clause,' meaning it expires after a decade. But it was accomplishing the one goal it set out to achieve: stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Human rights in China should absolutely play a role in broader U.S. policy toward China. When we look the other way on fundamental issues of human rights, we are also responsible.
We can improve the military at less cost and with increased capability. It's not acceptable to keep investing in structure when we would be wiser to invest in dominating the new warfare domain of cyberspace.
I want to be a public servant, not a politician.
There are too many who have not shared in the benefits of this economy.
Amateurs do tactics, experts do logistics, as we learn in the military.
The Democratic Party has been perceived to have a deficit of credibility on defense issues since the Vietnam War, unfairly or not.
I come from a background in the military where everyone had health care. We understood the value of education as a given. You learn a skill, earn a pension and go on to 'Be all that you can be'... You invest in people. You hold people accountable.
I don't look at Israel through the prism of running an election.
The way forward in the Middle East, as it has been around the world and throughout history, is communication. There must be direct talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, mediated by the United States.
It's like I learned in the military: the officers always ate last. When you're responsible for people, that's how it should be.
The Democratic Party isn't any good unless they know it's about people!
I'm a guy that verifies before he trusts.
I fought for the rule of law in America.
I don't want to be president if I have to win by outrage. I don't want to just win. I want to govern, and not just by executive order.
The citizens of this nation gave us - my wife and I - a health care plan that saved our daughter's life.
To be productive and focused, the rugged individuals in our economy need health security so that our country can remain competitive and agile in the changing economy.
Collectively, we must find points of leverage in order to convince China to improve their treatment of Uighurs, Tibetans, and other minority groups, to ensure the autonomy of Hong Kong, and to continue to protect democracy in Taiwan, among other issues.
In the face of a rising China, along with authoritarian regimes from Brazil to the Philippines to Turkey to Russia, and the constant presence of belligerent non-state actors, we need to reform our military to deal with asymmetrical threats.
We must make sure the stigma is removed around mental health and commanders must make it clear on a consistent basis that their door is open for everyone. Servicemembers need to know that command is there for them, to offer assistance however and wherever needed.
Everybody in the military is a Democrat. They just don't know it.
If you have a president who is really trusted, then you can move and advance those policies that actually make the American dream available to everyone.
We must end semi-automatic weapons that are used for war. We don't want those in the streets of America and that's why I've got to go to the people on this, not just the elected representatives and Senate, just like I did in my district.
The career politicians down in Washington don't want to be held accountable.
Yes, I'll stand up to the party if they're wrong and they aren't going the right way for people in Pennsylvania. But I do believe in Democratic principles.
In the military, we just don't leave fights.
A comprehensive approach to a two-state solution is not just, we believe, in Israel's interest. It's in our interest.
People don't trust party leaders.
What people in Washington worry about - they forget about the people. They forget the mission.
Trade is part of our national security.
When there's no light at the end of the tunnel, it's hard to keep things going.
For a public option, I voted for that when I was in Congress, and the Senate couldn't stand up to the health insurance industry and took it out.
We only won our freedom because of our allies, and we can only sustain it because of them.
Just as we need a productive warrior force to carry out our national defense mission, our national workforce must be equally able to carry out our economic mission.
I want to restore U.S. leadership within a rules-based liberal world order that collectively holds nations accountable for their illiberal behavior, whether in foreign or domestic spheres.
We did more to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions with a computer virus than we ever could have with bombs (and we did still more with diplomacy - the abandonment of which is also bad for our military, because militaries can only stop a problem, not fix a problem).
You can get so focused on a strategy and making it work that you lose sight of your larger mission.
We were rugged individualists in the Navy, but we all had health care.
We need to restore U.S. leadership to a world order that is rules-based in order to protect our American dream here at home.
