Political Quotes

“I have heard a lot of outrageous statements from the other side of the aisle tonight, and even one from our side of the aisle. But it questions me, it wonders me, I guess you would say, who are those special interests that everybody is talking about? Is it the small businessman who needs to have the ability, the deductibility; that if he has a small business and wants to get his employees covered, 85 percent of which are people who work today and do not have insurance and end up in situations with one family member that works for a small business, that we give them the ability to pool that and take it to the marketplace with the same advantages that big business gets? Is that a special interest? Is it a special interest for a family who wants to get health care and make choices of their own, instead of having an HMO or a doctor or an insurance company tell them, is that the special interest they talk about?”