"Individuals should be able to make a choice about where their long-term supports and services are available, and my bill would ensure that all people with disabilities can make that choice."
"Our national policies should no longer have a bias toward institutional care."
"We finally got it together, and the one part that I've worked on is upgrading the rehab act to provide for the kind of training and skills upgrading for people with disabilities when they're young."
"We want to make sure that they are aware of what they are entitled to."
"It is also our obligation to make sure that we are worthy of their valor."
"I have often said is not good enough for us at the time of a military engagement to pray for veterans."
"We can't afford it? We're the richest nation in the world. We're the richest nation in the history of the world."
"I think we have a responsibility as a Federal Government to respond to a national, I think, crisis that we have in families, especially with women and single mothers and single parents in this country..."
"The fact is we have better and more accurate studies that have been done in the last few years."
"It seems to me that we need to have some societal type agreements that put some floors underneath this."
"The Healthy Families Act... would ensure workers have access to paid sick days and would no longer have to worry about taking a financial hit if they or their children fall ill."