Gilbert Gutknecht: “I am not going to get into why. All I know is that I took an oath of office. You took an oath of office. We are here to…”

“I am not going to get into why. All I know is that I took an oath of office. You took an oath of office. We are here to serve the public interest. The pharmaceutical industry does not work for me. I do not work for them. But the boys over at the FDA do work for us, and they are required to serve the public interest. And a drug that a little senior citizen who sits there with a prescription and cannot afford to have it filled, she deserves somebody to speak for her. As long as I am here, as long as I have breath in my lungs, as long as I can hold these charts, I am going to keep talking about this and somebody is going to have to explain why the FDA keeps American consumers from buying safe and effective drugs from other countries for a fraction of the price. I am not going to give up on this. Because, as Winston Churchill said, you know what a fanatic is? A fanatic is a person who cannot change their mind and will not change the subject. I am not going to give up on this and neither are you. We are going to stay on this issue until Americans have access to world-class drugs at world market prices.”