Political Quotes

“the issue of stem cells is a very important issue. As my colleague knows, I am very committed to addressing that particular issue. What is very clear to me, as we started discussing health care on Friday of last week--and it is now Wednesday--is that we need to systematically take an issue, one by one, that is important to the American people, that I have clearly laid out, starting with medical liability, and then proceed to another medical liability bill and proceed to small business, without jumping to other important issues. There is a whole range of issues that affect cost, quality, research, and affect people's lives and affect access to health care. But the only way we are going to be able to address those in an intelligent, effective, step-wise way is to take them one at a time, like medical liability. We were unsuccessful there. We are now moving to small business and focusing on that. There will be amendments, and we welcome them. The chairman is here and ready to talk substance on those amendments. Let's dispose of those and stay on small business. Then we will go and look at a whole range of other issues on health care at an appropriate time. My intention is to go step-wise through this, with relevant amendments. The chairman is willing to address that and address the issue of small business health plans. We have 46 million people out there who are uninsured today.…”