Bill Foster

I often say that I inherited the family's recessive gene for adult-onset political activism. ”

I grew up in a family that was always talking about politics. ”

We have to get back to universities being more focused on education and more connected on what they educate students for to the jobs that actually exist. ”

It's wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development. ”

I think when you provide something absolutely free, the potential of abuse exists. Getting an education without skin in the game is not good. ”

When I see the sort of mindless tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts to education, I just think we've got it exactly backward in this country. ”

We need to beef up STEM education. ”

If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there's a housing bubble, or just say that the mortgage on a property cannot be larger than the value of the property three years ago, the amount of human misery that would've been avoided would've been enormous. ”

There's no way I can run a nonpartisan organization the same time I am running for Congress. ”

If you're dealing with live nuclear material, and you do anything that disperses them, it is very hard to hide, even after a 24-day cleanup period, the fact that there was nuclear material in this facility. ”