To all those across America who have come forward to share their stories over the past few months: thank you. Your courage and strength in driving this long-overdue national conversation is awe-inspiring, as national leaders, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard – and we must lead by example to ensure every person is treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.

Tammy Duckworth

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We are all dishonored when a veteran sleeps on the same streets that he or she has defended. We are all dishonored when a veteran's family has to live in a shelter while he or she is out fighting for us. WE NEED TO FIX THAT!

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It's important to have women in leadership positions, because our experiences are different from those of the men we serve with and that helps us identify problems we can fix.

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My job now is to not give up, to continue advocating and fighting for the issues Secretary Clinton ran her campaign on. I have to do that to show young girls in this country that they truly can grow up to be whatever they want to be - they need to know that they can grow up to be president.

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President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended "don't ask don't tell," and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs - because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons.

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Young women are not as likely to receive the encouragement they need from role models like teachers and parents. And they should be encouraged - studies show women are just as likely as men to win when they do run.

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On average, women need to be asked to run seven times before they actually do. While men, who are more likely to run, usually decide to do so on their own. We should be asking more women we know to run for offices across the spectrum - at the local, state, and federal levels.

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I support an all-of-the-above approach attacking climate change - everything from moving America towards being carbon-neutral, moving our country towards clean energy.

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Of course climate change is real. by Tammy Duckworth

Of course climate change is real.

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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

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My arm bones looked like chicken bones. by Tammy Duckworth

My arm bones looked like chicken bones.

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Farmers across Illinois and throughout the Midwest are hurting and ethanol plants are idling while this administration is abusing the small refinery exemption program to undermine the bipartisan Renewable Fuel Standard.

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I agree that the military has utterly failed at handling sexual assault through the Uniform Code of Military Justice process and I will push for meaningful reforms, as a former commander of an assault helicopter company, I want to know what else can be done beyond successful prosecutions that bring perpetrators to justice to make the lives of survivors better and ensure they have what they need to heal and be able to resume the careers they dreamt about from the time they entered the military.

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If President Donald Trump truly cared about the troops President Donald Trump would go visit them in a combat zone, President Donald Trump would go to the cemetery whether it was raining or snowing to honor our heroic dead.

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We must bring to bear the full force of U.S. sanctions against Russia as well as consider their expansion against broader sectors of the Russian economy, donald Trump must immediately cancel Donald Trump planned summit with Vladimir Putin until Russia demonstrates its willingness to come back into the community of nations that respect the rule of law, legal norms and democratic institutions.

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I think if you abolish ICE as it is as an executive agency, it reflects the policies of the White House, of the President, you abolish ICE now, you still have the same President with the same failed policies, whatever you replace it with is just still( going to) reflect what this President wants to do.

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( My concern is) that they don't have a plan. That's my suspicion, i don't think they even really know where all of the children are and who these children belong to.

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I think there's a lot of other things we can do before we get to... by Tammy Duckworth

I think there's a lot of other things we can do before we get to that point.

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Coming from a Midwestern state, I think you need to be able to talk to the industrial Midwest, you need to listen to the people there in order to win an election nationwide.

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Comparing abhorrent wait times to a trip to Even Disney is unbelievably tone-deaf and hurtful to American heroes desperately in need of care.

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Comparing abhorrent wait times to a trip to Disneyland is unbelievably tone-deaf and hurtful to American heroes desperately in need of care.

Tammy Duckworth