The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.

There are enormous resources in Greece.

If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's just that they haven't prioritized health care.

We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime.

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Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.