Political Quotes

“The beauty of sports--you know, we're entering into March Madness; we just witnessed the Olympics. When you get to sports, there's a scorecard. All the talk and all the bravado really doesn't matter. You kind of look at what the score is. And we had a Republican President, we had a Republican House, a Republican Senate for 6 years. And on the question of providing insurance to tens of millions of Americans who didn't have it, they did zero. On the question of reining in insurance companies in terms of excess costs, they did zero. In terms of dealing with the practices of insurance companies taking away coverage on a preexisting condition, because they say pregnancy is a preexisting condition or acne or domestic violence, the Republican President and the majority in the House and the Senate for 6 years did zero. Now we have a Democratic President and a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate. In less than 16 months, we have provided health care to over 10 million children, even against the tobacco lobby and all of our Republican colleagues, many of whom voted against it. We prevailed. We in this House voted to take away the antitrust exemptions from insurance companies. Within just a few hours, some 72 hours from almost this moment, we are going to provide over 32 million of our fellow citizens with health insurance coverage through a health care reform proposal.”