Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, this tripartisan amendment is offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Crowley), the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), the gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher), and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Paul). It is about lowering the cost of prescription drugs so that the American people do not have to pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. It is about ending the national disgrace of tens of thousands of American citizens in New England, the Midwest, the Northwest, from having to go across the Canadian border in order to purchase the same exact prescription drugs that they buy at home for 50 percent of the cost or 60 percent of the cost or 20 percent of the cost. It is about ending the absurdity of American citizens in California, Texas, Arizona, and the southern parts of our country of having to go to Mexico for the same exact reason. It is about allowing women in the United States who are fighting for their lives against breast cancer so they do not have to pay 10 times more than the women in Canada for Tamoxifen, a widely prescribed breast cancer drug. It is about telling the drug companies that they can no longer charge the American people $1 for drugs when those same exact products are sold in Germany for 60 cents, France for 51 cents, and Italy for 49 cents, the same exact products made by the same exact companies.”