Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, this morning I was at a meeting, a breakfast of the Epilepsy Foundation of America. I have a daughter who has epilepsy, and she and one of my other daughters and I attended this breakfast. And the relief that people feel, particularly parents, about us having passed this bill, us working to advance, really, freedom by doing away with the discrimination against people who have prior illnesses was palpable in that room. And as a dad, I can tell you, we have advanced the cause of millions of people across this country. Everybody in this room has somebody who's close to them. It could be a family member, could be a friend, a neighbor who has a prior illness, has some kind of condition, suffered in some accident, and what we've done is given those people the freedom to have some health care so they can seize the opportunities that this Nation provides. It's relief. It's freedom. It's civil rights that we passed in this last couple of days. And I know it's been contentious and I know there are strong philosophical differences, but when the rubber hits the road, for parents, for kids, for people who have these kinds of preexisting conditions, we really advanced the ball for them, and we advanced the cause of freedom.”