Political Quotes

“Well, everything is alive and well in Illinois. It is a magnificent district that I represent, and I think one of the most interesting things that occurred, we had a series of three town meetings. It is the district that is well served by media, and some of the Members had as many as 30 town meetings in order to get across the stretches of their congressional district, and fortunately we have an area that can be served by the media so that we can have fewer town meetings, spend more time in preparation, more time at the meetings, et cetera, and we decided to have a town meeting at one of the senior citizens high rises, retirement homes, and put on this demonstration with overheads showing, as Walter did, that, regardless of how you look at it, there will be no money for Medicare by the year 2002. I mean you can talk about people having to receive less, if that is the case, and people said, ``Well, gee, that is going to hurt here and everything,'' and I said, ``Well, remember this thing will be broke by the year 2002 unless we do something to really radically transform the system of Medicare,''”