Jim McDermott Quotes

#1. I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

Jim McDermott

#2. You can make people do anything if they're afraid.

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#3. We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.

Jim McDermott

#4. I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in something we don't have any idea what to do [with].

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#5. There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

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#6. I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.

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#7. But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

Jim McDermott