“It was absolutely the worst scene I've ever seen in my entire life, ... What I have seen so far of Hurricane Katrina's damage looks exactly the same, except for the loss of life. Everything just swept away.”
“Health reform has been like a car with a dead battery. I think this will provide the jumper cables. I think we could do it with a five-year plan. I think we have a situation where health insurance premiums are going up at four times the rate of wages. So the American worker is caught in a squeeze I think the lesson from Massachusetts is that if we get together and split the differences, and come up with compromise approaches, we don't have to turn the health care system upside down. We don't have to go to a socialized approach. We can do this within the context of our system.”
