Quotes About Government

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.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.

Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine.

We will have health care reform in America.

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

It doesn't matter is you call it 'Obama-care' or 'Elvis Presley care' or 'I-don't-care care.' It cannot sustain itself in its present form.

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as badly run as everything else run by the state.

When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.

I voted to repeal the government takeover of health care that raises costs, increases taxes, spends trillions of dollars that we don't have, cuts Medicare by $500 billion, and destroys jobs.

I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration officials at his direction were very much involved.

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.