Political Quotes

“there is a power that we have as legislators that we don't often discuss, but it's there nonetheless. It is the power of life and death. The power is most apparent when we vote on wars, but it is apparent here today as well. Today, we vote on life versus death. There are 50,000 American children who died last year. More children in America die every month than the number of Americans who were lost on 9/11. Half of those children never reached their first birthdays. Thousands of them died from cancer. We need to do everything that we can to save them. I was a very sick child. I had to go to the hospital four times a week for treatment. If it weren't for my parents' union health benefits, I would not be here today for this vote. Study after study shows that, for life-threatening conditions, uninsured people are three times more likely to die than those who are insured. At this time, there are many, many parents in our country who cannot afford health care for their children, but we cannot let the problems of the parents descend on the children. By voting ``yes'' today, we save thousands of innocent lives. We won't know who they are. In fact, they won't know who they are, but they will owe their lives to our conscience. Please vote for SCHIP today. Vote for life.”