"The primary purpose of our Right to Try Act is to give brave patients across this country some choice over their own destinies when all other avenues are closed."
"Right to Try would prevent the Government from blocking access to potentially lifesaving treatments."
"Imagine there were 30 million Americans eligible or food stamps. Two thousand applied and were approved. The other 29,998,000 never completed an application, and they starved to death."
"I appreciate that sentiment, but I also do respect the fact that they are well-meaning people with ideological differences."
"At a time when pundits are claiming that our politics are broken--Republicans and Democrats can't come together on anything--here is a cause--here is the cause that Americans of all political stripes ..."
"The status quo is not the answer."
"A bill that was unanimously passed by the Senate--unanimously passed by the Senate--will offer them a chance to extend their lives."
"This Right to Try legislation simply establishes the freedom for patients and their doctors to try therapies where the benefits far outweigh the risks."
"What we found both in that Bureau and in the Prosecutor General's Office was that the corruption was really systemic at the higher levels."
"To say that the corruption issues in that country are systemic would be an understatement."
"Would it make sense for us to tie funding and assistance to measurable anticorruption objectives?"