Quotes About Policy

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

If you have health insurance, then you don't have to do anything. If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care.

Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

[Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it.

We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana.

FACT: Nothing in Obamacare forces people out of their health plans.

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.