Political Quotes

“I wish to briefly comment on health care policy which we have been able to accomplish over the last several years. As most people know, for 20 years before I entered politics, I devoted my life to healing and to helping people one-on-one through medicine, and now for 12 years in the Senate I have tried to focus on healing and helping people using public policy. From the outset, I have worked hard to place medicine and health care at the center of our national agenda. I had a meeting at the White House earlier this morning. I restated how important it is that we address what is a coming tsunami as our aging population incessantly is coming toward us similar to a big tidal wave. It will be here in a few years. Health care affects our global competitiveness. It affects our $8.5 trillion debt, our deficit, and our State budgets. It is intensely personal. It affects all of us in a very direct way because we are all sick at one time or another. I am very proud of the work we have been able to accomplish on the floor in this body on health care policy. Thanks to a new Medicare Part D drug benefit, millions of seniors today are receiving access to drugs they didn't have before--drugs that can prevent heart attack or can prevent a stroke or can prevent various kinds of maladies from which people suffer.”