With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
Ron WydenThis house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
Ron WydenOregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.
Ron WydenIf we are going to have a health care program that works for all Americans, we are going to have to get beyond the blame game.
Ron WydenYou have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.
Ron WydenYou essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.
Ron Wyden