Political Quotes

“I stand in support today of a true bipartisan approach to health care. The American people have rejected the big bureaucracy system of health care delivery. They are afraid of a program that will be handed to them via the way of huge government, State and Federal bureaucracies that will give them the efficiency of the Post Office and the compassion of the IRS. They have seen the waiting lines in Canada and they do not want their health care rationed. They have seen people coming across the border to get those essential health cares which we in this country have provided, a secondary system for our Canadian brethren. The American people believe there is a common sense approach to health care reform. And do my colleagues know what? The American people also believe that our two parties on both sides of the aisle can get together and, as a matter of fact, that they should work together to find a middle ground that would provide health care security, health care that cannot be taken away, one that can control spiraling health care costs, and that we can provide these Americans who either cannot get it today or cannot afford it with health care. What the American people really want, Mr. Speaker, is the quality of health care we have today, the choice in health care we have today and not having it rationed, and a common sense, bipartisan approach will do that.”