Political Quotes

“let me begin by, first of all, commending my good friends and colleagues from Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Arizona, Senators Kennedy, Edwards, and McCain, for their leadership on this issue--bringing a series of reforms that seek to guarantee quality health care for more than 190 million of our fellow citizens. This is extremely important. We know there are 43 million Americans who have no health insurance at all. We hope at some point we can develop legislation to protect those 43 million fellow citizens who have to go through the anxieties on a daily basis of hoping their children, their families will not suffer from some catastrophic illness which could wipe out whatever meager holdings they have. That debate will have to be reserved for another day. But there are 190 million Americans who obtain health care coverage through private insurance. So we begin the debate by trying to make sure that those 190 million people who are covered by private health care coverage will be able to have the kind of rights we think they ought to have as citizens of this country.”