Political Quotes

“Medicare clearly has worked. You look at what Speaker Gingrich has said about Medicare, that he wants to see it wither on the vine, and those are his words, not mine. You look at what the next top-ranked Republican in Congress has said, Mr. Armey, that in a free society you would not have Medicare. You look at what one of the top Republicans in Ways and Means has said, he calls it socialized medicine. You look at what Senator Dole said. He said, 'In 1965 I was there fighting the fight, voting against Medicare, 1 out of 12, because it wouldn't work.' It is clear when 99 percent of the elderly in this country have health insurance and can live the last years of their life with dignity knowing that most of their health care will be taken care of that it is a program that works. I resent, as I think everybody on this floor resents, the kind of talk that Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Armey and some of the others have said when they belittle Medicare and belittle what it has done for people in this country.”