Political Quotes

“Three years ago today, I was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. That day, my youngest child, my daughter, turned 2 months old. There is a drug that I have to take every month, every 28 days, and the first time I saw the bill for that, the list price on that drug was $24,000 per injection. For people that don't have insurance or Medicaid or aren't covered, they are not getting that shot. They are not going to survive, some of them. This is a choice for some of you between your career and saving people's lives. There are so many folks who have reached out over the last several months panicking about their disabled children, about their senior citizen parents who are in nursing homes, people struggling with cancer, Alzheimer's, dementia, sickle cell, diabetes, all of these illnesses. You have the power today to make sure that they can live with dignity and stay alive, or you can choose your career. That is your choice. We choose to keep people alive. We choose to have healthcare in this country. We refuse to cut healthcare for 17 million people nationwide and 1.6 million people in Texas because it is wrong and it is immoral and we can take a different course.”