"I want you three and the advocates who have come here today to know that we're going to have some advocates at the White House tomorrow prosecuting your case."
"the first bipartisan universal coverage bill we've had in the history of the Senate, we take two baby steps."
"I think it is fair to say that I wouldn't have any Republican sponsors on the Healthy Americans Act if I had tilted this effort to the public side."
"You won't get much disagreement on that."
"the model that is included or embodied in the CLASS Act that Senator Kennedy has introduced."
"There have always been opportunities for innovators, and that is what the American dream has been all about."
"Where I disagree with the Ranking Republican is that the President’s budget deals with two of the major concerns."
"AIG has given the counterparties $20 billion. Those people could be just about anybody in the world. Why won’t the Fed disclose who those are?"
"the more that what we are doing focuses on these big institutions, the more it looks as if the masters of the universe who made this mess are not truly being held accountable"
"I think we ought to be disclosing at a minimum who these counterparties are."
"I think Senator Graham has put his finger on part of the problem."