Political Quotes

“I regret that we have reached a point here where we cannot pass one bill because it is being held hostage to another. No one disagrees with the Senator from Massachusetts in terms of the importance of some of the issues that he has raised with respect to a Patients' bill of rights. But this legislation should not be held hostage to that legislation. And Senator D'Amato is absolutely correct, we should move forward, because this has strong bipartisan support. There is not a Senator on the floor who would not support this legislation. So the women of America should not be held hostage because of internal divisions, because of parliamentary maneuvers, because of legislative gridlock. This legislation has the support of Democrats as well as Republicans. We have 180,000 women every year who are diagnosed with breast cancer.”