Political Quotes

“I want this to be nonpartisan. I want this to be, if you will, a plea for moving beyond our kind of camps we have been in and into something that can end the shutdown and actually benefit patients. So, to open the government, if we need to talk about healthcare, then, by golly, let's talk about healthcare. We have an affordability crisis. Families are being pounded by the cost of everything, including insurance. So how can we make it more affordable? By the way, I am a doctor. I have practiced in a public hospital for the uninsured for 20 years. Many of my patients were middle income, but they could not afford either the insurance or the healthcare they were receiving. I know the impact this has on a family's budget, but if we are going to solve this, we have to put down the ways that we have kind of become entrenched. It is just like trench warfare. We are going to win. We are going to make them do the white flag. We are going to continue to take our same tired arguments and fight each other until we wear the other one down. Well, the people who are casualties--the collateral damage, if you will--are the American people.”