Political Quotes

“During the debate 5\1/2\ years ago at the health care summit at the Blair House, our Democratic friends said: Well, when are you Republicans going to come up with a big, comprehensive plan? My answer to them was: If you are waiting for Senator McConnell to roll a wheelbarrow onto the Senate floor with a 2,700 page McConnell-care bill, you are going to be waiting until the sky turns purple because we don't believe in that. We don't think we are wise enough in Washington, DC, to write a comprehensive plan for everything about the American health care for all the people in this country. Instead, what we proposed to do--and we proposed it over and over again--was to move step by step in a different direction toward more choices, more freedom, and lower costs. In fact, I counted it up, and 173 times in the Congressional Record in the year 2009, we Republicans laid out our plans step by step toward those causes, steps like the step Senator Scott from South Carolina took in a bipartisan way just this year to give States the ability to set the rates for the kind of insurance small businesses could buy and avoid an 18-percent increase in premiums. Those are the kinds of steps we would take in a different direction to give the American people those options. Our time for the colloquy has expired. I thank the Senator from Georgia, Mr. Isakson, and the Senator from Louisiana, Mr. Cassidy.…”