Political Quotes

“I think Senator Moreno and, frankly, Senator Schumer are reflecting the frustration the American people have. I want to give a speech which is substantially the same as what I gave last night, and I will give it again later today. It is like TV advertising. I need people to actually listen to what I am saying as opposed to immediately presuming they know what I am going to say, and we end up in the same daggum situation we have been in for 39 days. We need to open the government, so if we need to talk about healthcare to open the government, let's talk about healthcare. Again, I worked for 20 years in a public hospital for the uninsured and the poorly insured. I know the consequences of this inflation that we have been having when it comes to health insurance. I know the impact it is having upon people as to whether or not--``My gosh, can I even afford to keep it?'' So Congress, Senate, let's find a solution, but to find a solution, we have to put down the way we have always thought, the way that--``Oh my gosh, we are going to oppose it if the other side proposes it just because the other side proposes.'' We have to actually move beyond the entrenched way of thinking and be creative. May I point out an irony here? Senator Moreno talked about irony. Right now--right now--Republicans are trying to return to the original ACA model in which money went straight to the patient but not to the insurance company.”