"We have to protect it against the predators who are looking at this, our health care system as just another way of making themselves more wealthy."
"Failure is not an option. We have to fix the system."
"Thank you, Senator Markey, for stepping up to champion the state-based Universal Health Care Act, SBUHCA."
"Throughout your career, you have worked to make government serve the common good."
"Thank you, Senator Markey, for giving us a powerful tool for the job."
"The corporate practice of medicine puts profits before people."
"[A]s a result of years of failures by you and the private equity ownership at Steward, access to health care is at risk for Massachusetts communities, and thousands of health care workers' jobs could ..."
"With Senator Wyden, I created a program called Independence at Home to help people with chronic illnesses to have the dignity of staying in their homes."
"Yes. And again two-thirds of Alzheimer's patients are women."
"the Congress is the right place to be, because the secret plan for every single Senator is to live to be a very old person"
"Research is medicine's field of dreams from which we harvest to give hope to families that a cure can be found."
"We never try to forget that medicine is for the people... it is not for the profits."