"Gleevec is a miracle drug. My former chief of staff's wife died of CML. Had she lived another couple of years Gleevec would have been discovered as this miracle drug and her condition would have been chronic and she would be alive today."
"How much money do you spend on marketing?"
"In fact, between 2013 and 2015, Novartis' price increase accelerated. It raised the price of Gleevec five times in two years. It turned out to be a 20 percent increase in that drug."
"Medicare paid $5.6 billion to your company between 2011 and 2018."
"The United States is the biggest spender, the Government of the United States is the biggest spender of drugs."
"If we look at that and then we look at Celgene, which in 2017--in just that one year raised the cost Revlimid 15 percent."
"At some point, the Federal Government cannot be the ultimate sucker here."
"So, just asking is coercion."
"I think that old adage about not changing the spots on a leopard really applies here."
"We want the background information about decisions made to shut off the sorting machines, to reduce overtime."
"Americans throughout this country, regardless of their party affiliation, want the Postal Service to operate properly. And there is an effort under way to slow the mail."