13 Quotes & Sayings By Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Feinstein is a United States Senator from San Francisco, California, and the author of five books, including A Mother's Journey: From War-Torn Bosnia to the Senate, The New American Dream: Three Dreams of the Women's Movement, and The Curse of the First Ladies. She served as Mayor of San Francisco from San Francisco for eight years. During her tenure she was on the forefront of issues facing women and children, including gender equity in the workplace, AIDS education and prevention, homelessness, domestic violence, sexual harassment in the workplace, and sexual assault.

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Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. Dianne Feinstein
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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. Dianne Feinstein
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Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged. Dianne Feinstein
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We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use. You can see drones some day hovering over the homes of Hollywood luminaries, violating privacy. This question has to be addressed. And we need rules of operation on the border, by police, by commercial use, and also by military and intelligence use. Dianne Feinstein
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'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. Dianne Feinstein
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The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. Dianne Feinstein
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We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums. Dianne Feinstein
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Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts. Dianne Feinstein
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Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. Dianne Feinstein
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Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less. Dianne Feinstein
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I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care. Dianne Feinstein
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For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities. Dianne Feinstein