"As a former prosecutor, when you have these Ponzi schemes and the Madoff case and things that result from these loose and ineffectual regulations from the past, so we could at least beef up some of th..."
"We have a number of healthy banks in Minnesota, our community banks."
"I have to get used to these things on the House side."
"We cannot do this in a cocoon."
"But the way we have been doing it hasn't been working. These kids are getting fatter and fatter."
"I just think it is unfair if we think that kids in certain urban districts are going to have the same kind of food that their parents are going to send to school with them."
"I just do not think this is the way we want to go. I do not think you do either in terms of having individual patients trying to negotiate rates."
"I want to save money here and I see this as saving money in health care costs and saving money in how we buy, purchase food."
"Yet, they have the highest quality and lowest cost of health care around."
"If it was working, I would say, fine, Mr. Felton, but it doesn't seem to be working for these kids."
"$50 billion--$50 billion--every 4 years that we can save."
"Miami, Florida, $15,000 for the same package of Medicare services that is $7,000 in the Twin Cities."
"Well, compared to Delaware, a woman can always do the work of two men."
"we shouldn't be operating in an evidence-free zone when it comes to the protection of our natural resources."
"this team--the medical team idea... is where you often find the lower rates."
"this is a safety-net program for our elderly, and we really must make sure that it's fiscally responsible and sustainable."
"the biggest variations occur when there is not a clear-cut path for the one right thing to do."
"Medicare has systematically been underpaying for services."
