Political Quotes

“late last night, there was a vote on the floor which was historic. I will address the subject matter in a moment. But 17 Republicans joined the Democrats in an amazing commitment to building America's infrastructure. I will speak to the specifics of that in a moment. But I wanted to recount another event this morning which was not as widely published but could be very important to many American families. Prescription Drug Costs Madam President, if you ask families across the United States to list the top three things they are worried about in terms of pocketbook issues and things that Congress can address, I will bet you that they will end up putting the costs of prescription drugs on that list every time. They know what happened. These prescription drug costs have gone through the roof. For many people, it is a real hardship. I was looking this morning at some of the information we have about insulin, and, you know, for millions of Americans that is literally a life-and-death drug. Insulin was discovered decades ago. The gentleman and those who did the research to find it basically gave away all of their patent rights--the rights to make any money off of insulin--for $1. They said you can't take a life-and-death drug and put a pricetag on it. It has to be shared by people. Jonas Salk did exactly the same thing when it came to the polio vaccine in the 1950s.…”