Thomas Daschle

Compromise is the oxygen of democracy. And Bob Dole provided a lot of oxygen over those years he was in Senate leadership.

Bob Dole was a partisan but it was he and Pat Moynihan that saved the Social Security System.

It will use Social Security and Medicare surpluses. It will create the same deficit situation, I promise you, as we have seen all through the 1980s and early `90s.

Senator Tom Daschle recently said he thinks Members of the Senate spend more time fundraising than they do working in Congress.

The American people, by survey after survey, say they want these tax loopholes closed when they are informed particularly of the loopholes which allow corporations to shift revenue to a tax haven.

Perfection is not an option.

Federal action to establish a mandatory program to limit greenhouse gas emissions is sensible and will provide agricultural producers with significant new market opportunities.

The agriculture sector is in a unique position to lead and benefit from efforts to address climate change.

It seems to me to make a lot of sense that there should be a Federal health board that has some oversight responsibility.

This is something that really does deserve a framework, a national framework.

I believe in that slogan that it is so much easier to build a child than to repair an adult.

We need to send that message. And it seems to me payment reform and tuition assistance are two powerful tools to do it.

It starts by empowering our scientists to do the great work that we know they can do.

Providing as high a quality of life as we can guarantee is a critical goal for us as we look at health reform and as it pertains especially to the disability community.

Immunization is probably as sound an investment as we can make in good health.

As we look to ways with which to bring down costs, I am absolutely convinced that a big part of that effort... will be determined by the degree to which generic drugs are allowed to play the role that it can.

I couldn't feel more strongly that the SGR system just isn't working right.

The case for reform of our health care system has never been stronger.

It's completely backwards--and it has to change.

I am encouraged by the commitment President-elect Obama has made to early childhood education.

It is no longer an illness-driven system, it is a wellness-driven system.

The flaws in our health system are pervasive and corrosive. They threaten our health and economic security.

We try to work together, when possible, to write legislation that focuses on what we can agree on--not what divides us.

I have a sense that the time has come for real constructive bipartisan action on healthcare.