Political Quotes

“the figures that I mentioned from the GAO report which indicate a $400 difference are if we factor in the number of years these people serve. I would also like to point out an experience I recently had at USUHS. I was there because a medal of honor was given by the Secretary of the Navy to a man named Michael Charissis, who was the person who saved lives in the Amtrak MARC accident in Silver Spring, MD, recently. He did it quietly. They had to work to determine who it was. How did he know how to do it? The kind of training he had had equipped him for that. I also want to remind this group, in terms of putting human faces, we had outstanding people who served in the Persian Gulf conflict. We had Rhoda Cornum, who was a graduate from there. We have had so many others, and such a distinguished group of people, and all of the military commanders who deal with medicine have come out in favor of it, all of the organizations that we know of. The American Legion, just to cite that, plus a lot of others, have all come out in favor of it. It is our only medical military university in the United States of America. I really think that we would be penny wise and pound foolish if we were to vote for this amendment, so vote against it.”