Patrick J. Kennedy: “I urge all who care for the sovereign rights of native Americans to oppose its passage.”

Moving public health bills should not be a partisan exercise.

We have got to address the stigma, and we have got to put the resources behind these efforts.

we are in denial as a Nation about mental health.

And until there is that same urgency towards enforcing, and until there is that same money backing up our words that these are really equal illnesses, we are really still in denial as a Nation.