"Preventing individuals from making personal health care decisions... is really the violation of fundamental human rights."
"There is too much administrative costs."
"But this is the system that my colleagues across the aisle made."
"The scale of a Medicare for All plan will be unlike anything you have seen in the history of the world."
"Medicare for All would make our ability to buy private insurance even more difficult."
"I think so much of what I have heard today is talking around the issue for political purposes."
"In 2009, Medicare cut payments to independent cardiologists."
"Everything that needs to be said has been said, just not by everyone yet."
"The culture has been impacted."
"The constitutional requirement seems to be very, very clear that physicality is necessary to constitute a quorum."
"I negotiated it with the Democrats. And so when that bill passed, it was the substance of my bill."
"Congress is not designed to be efficient, but that kind of takes it to the outer limits of inefficiency."