Political Quotes

“For 3 years in this Congress with this President, we have turned our government over to special interest groups. The Medicare bill was written by the insurance industry, the drug industry. Social security privatization legislation was written by Wall Street. Energy legislation has been written by Enron and Halliburton. Environmental legislation has been drafted by the chemical companies. And now trade legislation again has been written, in these provisions that we have talked about, by the drug companies. If you think that the prescription drug industry has too much influence in this Congress, if you think the prescription drug industry has too much influence on the Medicare bill, too much influence with FDA, too much influence on trade policy, then vote ``no'' on this U.S.-Australia FTA. If you do not trust the Bush administration to stand up to the drug companies and you do not trust the Bush administration to work for lower prices, then vote ``no'' on this U.S.-Australia FTA.”