Quotes
Jason Green, OMHA’s Program & Policy Director
(On Reducing Medicare Appeal Wait Time) “We are striving toward that 90-day mark.”(See Today’s Headline Post)
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
“To fight the big fights, we won’t always win but we’re gonna try…to fight back for working families…to fight back for people who couldn’t get health insurance…to fight back for Social Security and Medicare so seniors can retire with dignity…”
Congressman Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa)
“For me, issues related to older Iowans are absolutely critical if you look at the demographics of Iowa. We have an increasing aging population.”
Vince Lombardi, Football Coach
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence,”
Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
(From his Farewell Address on Disabilities) “It has to do with that ladder of opportunity–a ladder not escalator. We broke down barriers, opened doors of accessability and accommodations and said to people with disabilities, now go on, follow your dreams…”
Karen Finney, Democratic Communications Strategist
“It’s not about changing what we stand for or the issues. We have to do a better job of making our case.” (Latest News Post)
Senator Tom Coburn, (R-OK)
(Referring to America’s Founding Fathers)–“I believe our Founders were absolutely brilliant, far smarter than us. I believe the enumerated powers meant something. They were meant to protect us against what history says always happens to a republic. They’ve all died…”
Congressman Tom Reed (R-Corning), Ways & Means Subcommittee
(On Insolvency of Social Security Disability) “Nowhere in his budget did he (President Obama) touch on the issue; to me that is complete failure of leadership, to wait until the last minute. (See Latest Post)
Lindsay Koshgarian, Research Dir., National Priorities Project
“We all pay taxes and we all do a fair amount of griping about the taxes we pay, but we do, in fact, get something for those taxes.”
President Thomas Jefferson
“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object.”