Steve Israel

“My district has a lot of subsidized housing. My district has a lot of folks who are on public assistance.”

“Politics is a contact sport.”

“Washington is a place where people praise courage in others and then condemn it in themselves.”

“I came to Washington to challenge the status quo, and I'm not going to stop.”

“If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.”

“You can't get frustrated by the politics of it all. You have to be able to bend with the politics.”

“The fact is that we are not going to be able to build a security plan for Israel unless we have the involvement of the president of the United States.”

“It is not a matter of whether innovation is needed, but of how to encourage it.”

“We have to be very careful that we don't look like we're imposing values on anyone.”