29 Quotes by Ron Pollack

What the president is proposing is warmed-over, stale soup but with a recipe that is going to be harmful to the majority of Americans.

This program, with such large expenditures, is only adding a small number of people to drug coverage.

Seniors across the country will be absolutely bewildered by the choices they are confronted with and they are going to have a very difficult time navigating those choices.

Of all the policy issues going on right now in Washington, this is probably the most important.

My guess is the deadline will change. The more fundamental changes will have to await another president because President Bush is so strongly opposed to these.

I don't believe there's any serious likelihood the private plans will come close to matching the prices that the VA has achieved,

If we moderate prices, it's not the research and development budgets that would be the first to go down. The profit margins, which are three to four times the profit margins of other Fortune 500 companies, they might go down somewhat -- not research and development,

He didn't even try to make a defense for how well it's working or how it's going to improve. He was silent about it, and that spoke volumes about how the failure is being perceived in the White House.

Republicans have to decide: Do we create an issue in 2000 or do we provide what people want: real patient protection,