A culture exists within the [Ted] Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.

You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

We need to reorient people in terms of what real success is all about.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.