You can make people do anything if they're afraid.Collection: Fear
I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in something we don't have any idea what to do [with].Collection: Military
I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.Collection: Giving
I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.Collection: Struggle
There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.Collection: Compassion
But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.Collection: Hurt
I think it's a trial balloon to see what happens, and I'm not impressed with it.Collection: Thinking