Quotes About Access

I think if we're going to have a requirement that everyone have equal access to insurance, you really have to have a way to make certain that everyone is expected to participate.

If you want to go to a school with lower requirements, it doesn't diminish the education.

As I got older, the requirements of my skin changed. I had access to premium-quality products and these were great brands with amazing research behind them, but they took care of some needs, not all.

Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap.

All content should be copied without restriction. But for education and research, copyright laws are especially damaging.

While open-access journals have grown rapidly, researchers still have to read the paywalled articles in commercial journals.

My position has always been that the House of Representatives does not take reservations. It's walk-in only.

Whether a resident needs to get online to access homework or supplemental educational tools, to search for a job or start a business, broadband is a necessity.

Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your city every day has its costs, even if the 'poor door' woman would be considered affluent in another location.

We need to do more to support working families, like guarantee access to paid sick and parental leave and make sure every parent has access to quality, affordable child care.

As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.

Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

Democratic Latin America limps sideways because it can't run ahead. There are too many entry barriers to the poor, the innovative, and those without access to credit.

If you live in central London, that's probably fine for you, but in places like Edmonton, where you're almost out of sight of London, you've got to pay more and more to get into central London. How does that work?

By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up.

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.

African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in educational resources has caused this problem of disparate discipline and disparate academic outcomes.

We ought to follow through on an idea that was first proposed by President Clinton to allow people over the age of 55 who are not eligible for Medicare into the Medicare system, at cost, and below cost for those who can't afford it. That takes care of a significant number of the people who don't have health insurance.

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

People tend to not forgo purchasing a cellphone. In many places in the world, the first time they get on the Internet is through a cellphone. Pretty significant economic push, particularly in the emerging market.

Millions of children all over the world live in silence and face communication barriers - and, particularly, access to education.

Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.

You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.