Political Quotes

“as we gather in the Senate this evening, there are 45 million Americans who are uninsured. I have introduced this sense-of-the-Senate resolution and invite cosponsors from both sides of the aisle to establish a national goal that we will eliminate the 45 million uninsured in the next 10 years. Some are critical of a sense-of-the-senate resolution saying this is ``pie in the sky,'' we could not do that, we could not eliminate 45 million uninsured in America in the course of 10 years. I disagree. If we set it as a bipartisan national goal, if the President and Congress agree it is goal we are going to seek, we can reach that goal. The amendment which I have just offered will eliminate 20 percent of the uninsured Americans--20 percent of them. Now, which would be the first group that you would turn to, to give health insurance and give the protection of health insurance? Well, I think most Americans, certainly most American families, would say our children. Would we not want to take care of them first? There are 9.1 million children in America without health insurance. Let me show you what 9 million children might look like in this depiction. Look at the States in yellow. If you took the children in every one of these States, they would total 9 million children. It gives you an indication of the gravity of this challenge. And it also tells you that we need to do much more.…”