Corrine Brown

“I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again.”

“Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.”

“A lot of people talk about running for office, but what are you going to do when you get there? It's about service - and there aren't enough hours in the day.”

“I will let the work I've done speak for me.”

“Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs.”

“We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.”

“Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?”

“I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.”

“I don't do radio or TV. I do people.”

“You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.”

“I guess I'm a black woman with a mouth.”

“I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.”

“States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.”

“The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.”

“I think it is scary anytime anyone is coming at you asking questions.”

“Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural area of north Florida and include 22 prisons, and convicted felons can't vote.”

“I believe that tax dollars used to create a new school of engineering for Florida State University, when there is already a successful partnership in place with Florida A&M University, is counterproductive to increasing engineering graduates.”

“I don't have to prove my innocence to the court or to the news media.”

“If one of you pass out and go to the emergency room, the hospital has to see you. But when you go to the emergency room, you've had a stroke, or you've had a heart attack. If you had preventative medicine, you could maybe be taking your high blood pressure medicine so you wouldn't have a stroke and cut down the costs.”

“Everybody understands about expanding Medicaid. It's really simple.”