Political Quotes

“I say to the Senator from Wyoming, definitely not, and Americans are seeing every day that is not the case. If I could respond a little bit more in length, I would go back to 1994 and point out a problem President Clinton had, and in turn that President Obama tried to avoid about 14 years later. It was in 1994 that the health care reform issue came before the Congress--promoted by President Clinton at that time--and it failed in large part because it fundamentally changed the health care coverage for nearly every American. We know the bill that is now law has fundamentally changed, but President Obama, in 2009--and throughout his campaign in 2008--decided he would combat the failure of the Clinton administration on health care reform, and not being successful there, by repeating over and over to Americans: ``If you like what you have, you can keep it.'' That is basically what we heard at least 47 different times while the bill on health care reform was being debated. We heard that from the President himself. We probably heard it from Members of this Congress hundreds of times. While it may have been politically useful to make that promise to the American people, it remains a promise he cannot keep and he did not keep. The fact is, millions of Americans are seeing changes in their existing health plans due to the health reform law.…”