And since our country's founding, we've tried to keep government's heavy hand out of our personal lives, while ensuring that we do the most important thing, which is to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It will take time, but if we focus, if we narrow down where the bottle necks are and we move, there's never been a problem we can't solve.

The fundamental disagreement most Republicans have is they don't think health care is a right. They think it is a privilege, not a right.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

You know we're going to control the insurance companies.