Political Quotes

“It is. If you are following and tracking, we can talk bills, and we can talk regulations, and those are great things; but the bottom line is what is best in the health care arena from the whole perspective. You did a great job, Representative Carter, about talking about the doctor and all the different agencies coming in together. I will never forget, when growing up, the story, for me, of, when you got to the pharmacist, you were getting better. One, I had gotten through the doctor's office--I had gotten my shot, or I had gotten whatever--but I had gotten to the pharmacist's. Just give me some medicine. Let me go home. Back then, there was some tasting bad stuff-- I don't know where that came from--but I remember going in, and they would take time, and they would care. Still, in my district and in many of your districts, you can go in and look at the community pharmacist who was on the square. A lot of them had lunch counters. A lot of them had other things. They sold cards and trinkets. What is amazing to me today is I do not want to see through consolidation and corporate work a system that has a fingerprint on the scale, where government has basically allowed this to happen--to start taking away the centerpieces of American squares. When you start taking away the centerpieces of squares and of lots and of communities, both big and small--when you start doing that--then we are part of the problem. It is time we started educating everybody we can. Do you see that?”