Solomon Ortiz Quotes

• Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Education, Life, Success

• To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Honor, Promise

• From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Winter

• While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Constitution

• When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Schools

• It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting – in Iraq or Afghanistan – certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Individual

• To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Died

• Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Today

• This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars… yet we have – to date – funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That’s quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Congress, Security

• Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Troops

• Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teachers

• In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Security

• The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace

• Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President’s budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Economy

• This nation’s 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Budget

• Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants – despite the Coast Guard’s determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Majority

• I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation’s leading role models.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Benefit, Better

• In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps’ Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace, Crisis

• Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Priorities

• Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Topics in Children, Education

Solomon Ortiz (26)

Birth:	3rd June, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

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