Political Quotes

“I want to thank Senator Grassley. He is a proud Republican conservative. I am on the other side of the spectrum. I am a Democrat, proud of my progressive background. The two of us agree on this because it is common sense. If the drug companies are going to spend a fortune, billions of dollars--more than they spend on research for new drugs--advertising these drugs, we have a right to ask: What does it cost? Is that such a tough question to answer? Not if you are proud of your product. Not if you are proud of the price you are charging. But if you don't want the American public to know, you conceal the price and you send Senators to the floor to object. Now, both political parties spend an awful lot of money on political opinion surveys: What are Americans thinking? Do you know what shows up as a No. 1 concern year after year after year? The high cost of prescription drugs. That isn't getting any better. If you ask insurance companies: Why does the cost of health insurance keep going up? The No. 1 driver: the high cost of prescription drugs. If you ask: What are we going to do about Medicare's runaway costs? You have to do something about the high cost of prescription drugs. We are addressing that issue directly, but there are only four U.S. Senators on the floor of this Senate for this occasion, because we are not going to go to the measure and actually debate and consider it.…”