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Amy Klobuchar

Amy Jean Klobuchar (, born May 25, 1960) is the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party.

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I think simply because you have different ideas doesn't mean you're fighting for regular people.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 5 days ago Politics

I'd guess neither of them wants to alienate Biden supporters.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 5 days ago Politics

I just think I have a better way, and I think it's also important that she keeps not telling us how she's going to pay for them, and, as I said, someone's going to get that invoice, and she needs to tell us who it is.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 6 days ago Top News

I think we owe it to the American people to tell them where to send the invoice, the difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something you can actually get done.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 6 days ago Top News

What if Donald Trump was standing up here on the debate stage with me? You know what I would say to him? I said, you said you wanted to do this in your race for president. You actually said that you wanted to put women in jail, then you tried to dial it back, and you said you wanted to put doctors in jail. That is exactly what the Alabama law is. It put doctors in jail for 99 years.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 6 days ago Politics

We owe it to the American people.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 6 days ago Politics

The difference between a plan and a pipe dream is something that you can actually get done, at least Bernie is being honest here and saying how he's going to pay for this -- and that taxes are going to go up.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 6 days ago Top News

Your idea is not the only idea.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 6 days ago Top News

I think we know this makes no sense at all. We know this isn't the right thing to do.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 10 days ago Politics

Someone suggested maybe I should tie Amy Klobuchar to a railroad track and then record this video and say' I won't move until I get all your donations,' in to a million dollars, but I'm not going to do that because I give it to you straight.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 18 days ago Politics

A patchwork of voluntary measures from tech companies isn't sufficient — we need to pass the Honest Ads Act.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 19 days ago Technology

I am someone who tells the truth, I don't make promises I can't keep.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 19 days ago Politics

Quite frankly the antitrust investigation into these automakers appears to have less to do with protecting competition than with intimidating parties that don't fall into line with the Trump administration's plan to relax emissions standards.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Technology

I strongly opposed him, based on his views on executive power, which will continue to haunt our country, as well as how he behaved, including the allegations that we are hearing more about today.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

I don't think that you can look at impeachment hearings without getting the documents -- the House would have to get the documents -- and Attorney General is shielding documents.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

While Bernie wrote the bill, I read the bill.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

While Bernie wrote the bill, I read the bill, and on page 8 -- on page 8 of the bill, it says that we will no longer have private insurance as we know it. And that means that 149 million Americans will no longer be able to have their current insurance.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Big technology companies have become some of the most powerful organizations in the world. They face little competition and there are numerous examples of the companies purchasing start-up competitors in various lines of business.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Business

Do something, Senator McConnell. America is done waiting for you.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 1 month ago US News

He folded to Big Oil.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

There's mental illness&hate throughout world, but U.S. stands alone w/high rate of gun violence.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

Inaction is unacceptable. No more talk. The time for passing legislation is now. I'm ready to go back tomorrow.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 2 months ago US News

Marianne Williamson're going to hear a lot of promises up here, but I'm going will tell Marianne Williamson this, yes, I have bold ideas but they are grounded in reality. And, yes, I will make some simple promises. I can win this. I'm from the Midwest. And I have won every race, every place, every time.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

They're moderate Republicans and we need to win them to win the election.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

It looked like a bad deal then, and it looks like a bad deal today, despite the parties' promises and this proposed consent decree.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Top News

I am just simply concerned about kicking half of America off of their health insurance in four years, which is exactly what this bill says.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

There are three women up here who have fought pretty hard for a woman's right to choose.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

You can't take things of value from a foreign country and use them in your campaign. It is illegal. And President Donald Trump is actually putting President Donald Trump out there, and sending out the signals, once again, just like President Donald Trump did in 2016, about dirt on Hillary Clinton, it means that President Donald Trump is engaging in this same kind of behavior.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

It's critical that we and the American people have a good sense of what the agencies are actually doing to protect competition in this important part of our economy.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Politics

Every so often I get sad about the numbers for some of the women -- including everyone, our combined numbers and what they are -- but I think it has been improving and I think people are taking us seriously and I think the debates are going to be a really good chance for the woman to show their stuff, could we be running with less experience than we had ?

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

That's the kind of chaos he likes, and I just think that's not how Amy Klobuchar embark on international diplomacy with one of our best allies. U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, another Democratic presidential hopeful, had a similar criticism.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Politics

John McCain kept reciting to me names of dictators during that speech because John McCain knew more than any of us what we were facing as a nation, John McCain understood it, john McCain knew because John McCain knew this man more than any of us did.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

Of course I will, i think my track record shows that. I love working in the Senate. I love representing Minnesota.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Politics

I don't know what she was thinking.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

You do it by actually bringing in drugs from less expensive countries like Canada that are safe, because I can see Canada from my porch in Minnesota, so I kind of like that.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

Every single time I have run, I have won every single congressional district in my state, including Michele Bachmann's, OK ?

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

Lucy Flores ' said we need to listen to women, and Lucy Flores ' is right. We need to listen to women. The bottom line here is that women deserve the respect and the opportunity to share these stories, and it takes tremendous courage to do so, and that's not easy, what she just did on TV.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

We're not going to see( continued success) if we spend our whole time bemoaning the fact that he's there, he's there. And we have to present an alternative.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 7 months ago US News

I will use humor.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

The Green New Deal ? I see it as aspirational. I see it as a jump-start.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on FOX News 7 months ago Politics

I'm asking you to join us on this campaign. It's a homegrown one, i don't have a political machine. I don't come from money. But what I do have is this : I have grit.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

The Mississippi River, all our rivers connect us, to one another. To our shared story, for that is how this country was founded, with patriots who saw more that united them than divided them.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

On an island in the middle of the mighty Mississippi River, in our nation's heartland, at a time when we must heal the heart of our democracy and renew our commitment to the common good, I stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron ore miner, the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman, the first woman elected to the United States Senate from the state of Minnesota, to announce my candidacy for president of the United States.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

I'm continuing to talk to people about it.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

He wasn't moving us forward and rising to the challenges of the day.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

I was really stunned by how he acted at that hearing, one idea here is that he simply was drinking more than he was saying over this time period, and that he didn't remember what happened so I was just simply trying to get at that.

– Amy Klobuchar