Political Quotes

“67 years ago yesterday, Dr. Jonas Salk announced that the United States had successfully tested a vaccine to prevent polio, a dreaded virus that afflicted tens of thousands of Americans. Mr. Speaker, we have beaten terrible diseases before, and we will again. When we were attacked on 9/11, our heroes were the firefighters and police officers who ran towards the burning buildings and the citizens who stormed the cockpit of flight 93, who put their own lives at risk. Mr. Speaker, we have those same heroes today. Today they are the thousands of nurses and doctors and countless other healthcare professionals and their staff who work in our hospitals and clinics and provide the greatest care anywhere in the world. Mr. Speaker, we owe them our deepest gratitude. We also owe them every tool, every piece of equipment, and every resource they need to save lives. Mr. Speaker, we also have a duty to our parents and our grandparents. In this greatest Nation on Earth, we protect the sick and the most vulnerable. We owe all we have to our mothers and our fathers, to the generations who came before, and we must do all we can now to protect them. All of us, Mr. Speaker, are called into the service of this blessed Nation at this time of challenge, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans. This pathogen does not recognize party lines, and no partisan solution will defeat it--neither will the government acting alone.…”