Political Quotes

“This is, as has been pointed out, the 37th attempt to repeal the health care reform. It has been my privilege to run 37 marathons in my career, but at least when you run a marathon you get someplace. Millions of people are benefiting from the health care reform. Over a third of a million small businesses are getting tax credits to be able to help insure their employees. We are seeing aggressive efforts at better care, lower cost, eliminating lifetime limits, keeping young people on their parents' insurance policies. Madam Speaker, we are finding across America there are literally hundreds of thousands of people working on the implementation of this legislation. Is it perfect? I haven't seen a perfect bill, especially one that is dealing with 17 percent of our economy. It is a dramatic improvement over what we have got. But instead of working with us to refine and improve over the course of the last 4 years, we go through these pointless exercises without offering an alternative. My friend, my colleague from New York (Mr. Crowley), had their plan: a blank piece of poster board. No specifics; no effort to come forward with something that would do a better job of meeting the needs of seniors' prescription drug problems, young people, patient protection, lifetime limits, payment reform.…”