Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Georgia, Paul Broun, a fellow family physician, a fellow conservative who has been a great inspiration for me, a great Member, and under whose leadership many of these issues have been very valuable to me. Mr. Speaker, what I'm going to do is just touch very lightly, just highlights, on where we started with this and where we are today and certainly yield back for others to weigh in on this. It's been slightly less than a year ago that we began to see a strong movement towards the passage of health care reform in Congress. Quite frankly, I ran on health care reform as a physician, and I'm sure Dr. Broun sees many of the things that can be fixed in our system that are problems. Having said that, we have the best health care system in the world. How do I know this? Well, just one of many empiric facts is a gentleman--I believe his name is Mr. Williams--who is Premier of Newfoundland, who needed heart surgery, and the type of heart surgery he needed was simply not available in Canada. So he came to the U.S. of A., the good old U.S. of A., to have that heart surgery because that's where the cutting edge is for health care. If you really need health care, the best of health care, and you have the resources, the U.S. of A. is the place to get it, but we need to be sure that good health care is available to all.…”