Political Quotes

“the Senator from Utah is a distinguished business person in his own right and is one of those fresh faces that has actually been involved with Main Street America, and I appreciate very much his taking time to come and share his views on this very important subject of health care reform, which is here this morning. As I said a moment ago, Mr. President, we have now had findings from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce which were revealed last week that are very telling. One of the points I did not make a moment ago was the fact that the data that the U.S. Chamber has now presented is not so much startling as it is corroborating. The findings that they have put forward fall right in line with everything we have been seeing over the last month with regard to public attitudes about the manner in which we should approach health care reform. It almost always breaks as the numbers that the chamber brought forward indicate. Just the week before a CNN-USA Gallup Poll showed that the general citizens, not business people in particular, but just the general citizenry also felt overwhelmingly that we should begin to focus on targeted reform and that we should not destabilize perhaps the most innovative, creative medical system in the history of the world but improve it.”