Leonard Boswell

Candidate for Congress

Iowa (IA-03)

 

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On Homeland Security And The War On Terror:

"I've been very instrumental in pushing for the reform in our intelligence system, to have a national director where they've got clout over these 15 different agencies. We look back prior to 9/11 and there was some information out there that wasn't being shared just because the system is antiquated and wasn't working. We've got to fix that and we're in the process of doing it."

On The Iraq War:

"We have got to take new direction, new leadership and get out of there. And the nations that are involved in that region, major nations -- France, Germany, Russia, and others -- if we're concerned, and we are, they are surely more concerned and so they ought to be brought to the table and we keep the effort up until we get them to the table and come and participate in this and take ownership. Yeah, we want you to help pay for it, but you have ownership because we've got to solve this together or it's going to get worse."

On The Economy::

"There's 500 million Chinese who are moving from the country to the urban setting [in the] next three years, they've got to work. And that's going to be a tremendous challenge to us to not lose our good paying jobs in manufacturing. We've got to be more competitive, we've got to be more up to speed. We've got the productive workers, there's no question about it. We'll put them up against anybody, but they've got to have a level playing field."

On Education:

"It wasn't funded. And we were looked square in the eye and they said, 'Yes, the funding's going to be there.' But right now, after three years, it's $30 billion behind. So it's an unfunded mandate and the school districts are under a lot of pressure to keep up and make sure that our children ... keep up with technology and the teachers ... And this unfunded part of it is simply unacceptable. It needs to be revisited."

On Health Care:

"Put this subject matter right out here on the table in broad daylight and look at how other countries do it. Bring in the best experts we have in this nation -- and we surely have a lot of them -- and have that public discussion. And the end of it, I think we'd come up with what the United States could do to ensure that everybody's got health care."