Political Quotes

“I rise in strong opposition to this legislation, the so-called 21st Century Cures Act. While I appreciate the work Senator Murray, Senator Alexander, and others have done on this legislation, I cannot in good conscience vote on it in its current form. It goes without saying that everybody, whether Republican, Democrat, or Independent, wants to find cures to the terrible diseases that are impacting the lives of millions of people, such as cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, and the terrible illnesses that strike children. We all want to find cures for those illnesses, but that is not really what this debate is about. The debate we are having on this bill is simple: Do we continue to cave in to the demands of the pharmaceutical industry--an industry that is making recordbreaking profits by charging the American people, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs--or do we have the courage to stand up to the CEOs of big drug companies whose prices are so high that one out of five Americans who gets a prescription from a doctor is unable to afford to fill that prescription? Let's be clear. If you cannot afford to fill that prescription, you will likely get sicker, and in some cases, you are going to die.…”