Political Quotes

On the recordJuly 21, 2007
It will take all of us to stand up to a drug and insurance industry that spent $1 billion in lobbying to block health care reform.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks to the National Council of La Raza in Miami

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