“Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 89 of 204
“We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.”
“Real social progress is always a widening of the circle of concern and protection. It's respect and empathy overtaking blindness and indifference. It's understanding that by the true measure, we are all neighbors and countrymen, call to each one of us to know what is right and kind and just and to go and do likewise.”
“It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.”
“No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs.”
“This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.”
“We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.”
“The wildest colts make the best horses.”
“By working together to focus on our national priorities today we can ensure that the state of our union is strong for the future.”
“The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.”
“We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.”
“If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.”
“It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.”
“Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.”
“Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.”
“I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.”
“Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand.”
“We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?”
“While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.”
“Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.”