Political Quotes

“I thank our friend and would also wish to focus on that, but you know, as you were talking, I am also thinking, you know, we have got a very shameful situation in our own country right now. This is, you know, we kind of call ourselves the land of the free and home of the brave, we stand up for the lowest among us, and now we find ourselves here in the greatest democratic institution in the world, and we cannot get the leadership on the other side to work with us on solving this problem so that Americans can have access to the kind of health care that they deserve; in fact, the kind of health care that we have invested in with our tax dollars, the tax dollars on the appropriations bills that we vote on each year whether the Republicans are in charge or the Democrats are in charge. We are putting funding into medical research. We are pitting funding into NIH so that we can develop new and great methods of healing. And in the Pittsburgh area where I happen to come from, we were able to see tremendous successes back in 1950s. Jonas Salk, the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Sabin and others cured polio. What a phenomenal day that was. And Dr. Thomas Starville and others led the world and pioneered in transplant surgery so that now some body parts are changed like automobile parts. It is absolutely amazing. Yet my constituents, who may live almost across the street or around the corner from these wonderful medical institutions, cannot have access to those places of healing.”