Political Quotes

“It is the same experience I had. In September I had the opportunity to spend a day with one of my constituents who is kind of heading up the healthcare rebuilding in Iraq, Jim Hoveman. I spent the day, and we went through one of the facilities where they are rebuilding an administrative building. Again, I am just kind of walking through the building, and I stopped and talked to two of the construction workers. It was not long, and I had about 40 of them around me, kids, maybe 18 years old, and then individuals that were probably getting closer to 45 or 50. But they wanted to talk, and they wanted to ask questions. But you could see the excitement that they felt, to have the opportunity to talk with people, to express their views and express their appreciation. Then we went to one of the hospitals. The doctors and everybody focused finally on equality of healthcare, meaning it was going to be available all across the country. In Basra, they did not have much at all. This is a country that spent like $1 per individual. A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to be at the White House where the First Lady introduced the program that they are going to do with Project Hope to build a highly technical state-of-the-art Children's Hospital in Basra. There is some debate as to whether this hospital should be built or whether the money should be spent in a different way. Again, we will have that debate.”