Quotes from Tom Harkin

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

When I campaigned, I'd let them throw a punch, but by gosh, I'd throw two back. I always said, the first rule in politics is never defend, always attack. I still believe that.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.