Quotes
Tricia Neuman, Senior Vice-President – Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
“There will always be a small share of the Medicare population with sufficient wealth and resources to absorb higher costs, but most will not be in that position…” (See post under “Latest News” for more on this.)
Former Senator Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.)
(On Social Security: Politics Third Rail) “Anything that requires Americans to take less or pay more is a third rail.”
Former Congressman Elton Gallegly (R-CA)
“California spends nearly $1-billion a year on Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month over and above emergency health services.”
Lou Gehrich, Legendary New York Yankee First Baseman
(July 4 1939 Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day) “Fans, for the past two weeks you been reading about the bad break I got. (he was diagnosed with ALS). Yet I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”
President John F. Kennedy
(At 1962 Independence Hall speech): “We who gathered at this same hall…declare now our vow to do our part to lift the weights from the shoulders of all, to join other men and nations on preserving both peace and freedom,…
Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
“Equal and exact justice to all men…freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Erica Jong, American author and teacher
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
Christopher Morley, American journalist and novelist
“When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue — you sell him a whole new life.”