Political Quotes

Elaine Edwards

The Public Record

Jul 22, 2007

We have got to stand up to the insurance company and the drug companies that Barack just spoke about. It's the only way we're ever going to bring about real change. We should be outraged but by those stories.

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Jul 22, 2007

The only way to provide universal coverage is to mandate that everyone be covered.

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Jul 22, 2007

Big insurance companies, big drug companies, big oil companies, they are not going to negotiate. They are not going to give away their power. The only way that they are going to give away their power is if we take it away from them.

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Jul 22, 2007

While the Iraqi parliament is on vacation, is George Bush going to be on vacation in Crawford, Texas?

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Jul 15, 2007

It's infuriating. Just the idea that -- that people are still living like this and nothing's being done, when billions of dollars have been appropriated. Where is the money? Stuck in some bureaucrat's desk somewhere? I mean, where is it?

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Jul 15, 2007

a millionaire candidate who wants you to keep attention to the country's poor.

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Jul 15, 2007

we're with John Edwards on the trail as he kicks off his poverty tour.

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Jul 15, 2007

I hope that America sees that what they saw in New Orleans is not just in New Orleans. It's in rural areas in the South. It's in big cities in the North. And it is still a pervasive -- poverty is still a pervasive issue in America.

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Jul 15, 2007

Well, I would -- I would gently argue with you about some of that. And, at least for now, I appear to be ahead in Iowa, very competitive in the early states. But that's all politics.

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Jul 15, 2007

I think that -- that the truth of the matter is, America is not paying enough attention, I would say.

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