Political Quotes

W. Todd Akin

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2010: 426 quotes2011: 101 quotes2012: 25 quotes
Mar 3, 2010

That makes it awfully awkward, because let's say that some of these bills were scored. You know this well, some of these bills would save a lot of money. And somebody is going to ask: We have a President who wants to spend a trillion…

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Mar 3, 2010

And yet they have still not scored your bill that has been sitting there since last summer.

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Mar 3, 2010

But the problem is, it's one thing with lip service to say that you like the doctor-patient relationship. It's another thing to try to substitute a bureaucrat in between that relationship. And that's what we've been objecting to all the…

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Mar 3, 2010

I have never heard Republicans say, We want to reduce or relax what health insurance companies are doing. We've been railing on the fact that we don't want them to get somebody who is not a medical person between a doctor and a patient…

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Mar 3, 2010

So you have got one choice. It is a little bit like Henry Ford's automobile. You can get any color you want as long as it's black. In this case, you can get any health insurance you want as long as it's the government policy.

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Mar 3, 2010

Then using your logic, the one-size-fits-all then has to change existing policies. And when you change those policies, then you don't have the same policy that you were promised you could keep. Am I getting the drift of this right?

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Mar 3, 2010

So if we had the summary of the summary of the summary, would that be 3,000 pages?

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Mar 3, 2010

I just appreciate your discipline, and having worked through specifically and exactly what the bill says. Because it is easy to say that this bill isn't going to cost a dime because somebody can say it isn't going to cost a dime. Well…

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Mar 3, 2010

Well, I think we have had a chance to take a look tonight at what I started out by saying that we are standing as Americans on the edge of an abyss. I recall standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon and seeing a thousand feet of open space…

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Mar 3, 2010

It forces individuals to purchase government-approved health insurance. Let's talk about that for a minute. Yeah, the old Democrat plan forced you, it forces everybody in America to buy something. And the President's new version forces you…

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Mar 3, 2010

You are right. The thing about legislation, because it affects so many people, it is so expensive and what you sometimes create can never be taken back, it is absolutely crucial that we get this thing right the first time. We would be far…

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Mar 3, 2010

Missouri has enacted the same thing. We've had the same experience. It's dropped the cost of health care.

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