Health Care Debate Quotes

#1. I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

Dennis Kucinich

#2. No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.

Bart Stupak

#3. Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.

Bernie Sanders

#4. I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

Stephen Hawking

#5. I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

Gail Collins

#6. Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want patients to receive the best care available. We also want consumers to pay less. And we don't want to bankrupt the government or private insurers. Something must give.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#7. Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

Sean Hannity

#8. Getting what you want doesn't make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people, they don't know what they want because they start at a very early age being programmed to think that they can't have what they want.

Bob Proctor

#9. We need some remedial training on how to live as subjects in a kingdom. We may be justified in rejecting the divine right of kings to rule but we cannot be justified if we reject the rule of our divine king.

Joe Carter

#10. It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

Alison Bechdel

#11. If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

Charles Caleb Colton

#12. I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

Jacob Lew

#13. I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.

Jim Sturgess

#14. There had to be consequences. Lacey was always right about that. Maybe freaks stayed freaks and losers stayed losers, maybe sad and weak was forever, but villains only stayed villains until someone stopped them.

Robin Wasserman

#15. The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.

Paul Ryan

#16. I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

Bill Budge

#17. After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

Barack Obama

#18. The worst deformities, the foulest stains, disfiguring and blackening all the rest, are the very parts of Fijian nature which, while the most strongly characteristic, are such that may only be hurriedly mentioned, dimly hinted at, or passed by altogether in silence.

James Calvert

#19. he thought how little the rest of the world should matter to him, when he was secure in the good opinion of those he valued most, and in the knowledge that he was doing his duty.

Naomi Novik

#20. Unfortunately, being low maintenance also meant not asking for what you needed and never inconveniencing anyone.

Brene Brown

#21. You never feel more aware of what it means to be alive than when you're falling in love. Or dying.

Kate Bassett

#22. It was time to take up the discussion over governance, housing, transportation, security, health care, and education - to define the country we wanted and outline our terms. Who were we. . . . What were our limits and our ambitions?

Juliana Barbassa

#23. The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

Fred Upton

#24. What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

Thomas Frank

#25. During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.

Chellie Pingree

#26. The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy.

T. Colin Campbell

#27. At the debate, Donald Trump backed off of his health care position for 20 years. For 20 years, he has agreed with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on socialized medicine, saying Obamacare doesn't go far enough. He wants the government to pay for everyone's health care and to control it.

Ted Cruz