"We need your leadership at this moment."
"Health insurance coverage for all must be one of our first priorities."
"Medicare Part D... is extraordinarily confusing."
"Will you work with some of us... to do away with the donut hole?"
"Many of us for years have been trying to grapple with the issue of why Americans are forced to pay by far the highest prices in the world for the same exact prescription drugs."
"It remains unconscionable that Americans, let alone in the developed world, lack universal health care as a right of citizenship."
"any success Mr. Obama has in reducing the number of uninsured will be meaningless if the newly insured cannot find medical homes."
"Will you help us save money by allowing Medicare to begin negotiating with the drug companies?"
"Will you work with those of us who think that, in fact, Americans should be able to purchase safe, FDA-approved medicine from other countries where the prices are substantially lower than they are in ..."
"I think that I would like to see us worry more about law enforcement in America than law enforcement in Iraq."
"I believe we should restore the COPS program and the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program to the levels that worked so effectively in the '90s."
"Do you believe that Wall Street leaders engaged in illegal behavior and that some of them should end up behind bars in the coming years?"
"The recklessness, the greed, I suspect the illegal behavior of maybe a few hundred, a few thousand people has impacted and destroyed the lives of millions of people in this country."
"The amount of money is so huge that nobody can get their hands around it."
"But don't you think it is a little bit weird and a little bit undemocratic that the taxpayers of this country are providing help--maybe it is good, maybe it is bad, maybe it is right."
"The criticism, Mr. Chairman, has been that it is pretty easy, if my bill goes from $2 billion to $8 billion, we are spending $6 billion."
"I think the average person would think it is incomprehensible, again--of course, that is the word we keep using about this whole financial disaster--that trillions of dollars are being lent out withou..."
"As long as there are two candidates fighting for the nomination when it's obvious which one is going to win, all that it does is to help the other party's nominee."
