“Whether it is gun control lobby, health care lobby, or abortion, pro-choice lobby, whatever it is, people are always trying to say that it is about restricting rights and they are never really prepared to talk about what the honest tradeoffs are. One of the things we need to do a better job of is actually painting those tradeoffs.” PeopleNeedsTryingCareJobsChoicesRightsHonestPaintingGunPreparedHealth CareAbortionGun ControlAlways TryingBetter JobsPro Choice Abortion Author:Ian Bremmer
“We can begin to address the issue of guns by teaching our young people how to deal with situations in nonviolent ways. Someone said to me the other day, "What our adolescents need is not so much health care, but healthy caring," and I agree. Parents and churches need to provide that. Curricula in our schools [need to] provide that.” PeopleWayNeedsSaidCareSchoolYoungParentChurchDealsSituationIssuesTeachingHealthyGunAgreeCaringHealth CareAddresses Author:Joycelyn Elders
“My biggest challenge is to educate the American people, to make access to health care available for all, and to make sure that prevention plays a big part in health care. In the case of guns, prevention means we prevent homicides and devastating, expensive gun injuries by preventing those who shouldn't have guns from getting their hands on guns.” PeopleMeanPlayHandsBigsCareChallengesCasesGunAvailableAccessHealth CareExpensiveInjuryEducatePreventingPreventionHomicide Author:Joycelyn Elders
“Hillary Clinton has really strong plans, in terms of the economy, extending health care even further, making education more affordable, making smart gun law changes to prevent the kind of disasters we've been seeing on a daily basis.” KindCareLawStrongTermEconomyPlansSeeingSmartGunBasesClintonDisasterHealth CareAffordableExtendingGun Law Author:Natalie Portman
“This is what I would call old politics. This is the stuff we're trying to get rid of. Because the problem is, when we start breaking down into conservative and liberal, and we've got a bunch of set predispositions, whether it's on gun control, or its' on health care, any attempt to do health care is socialized medicine.” TryingProblemCareStuffGunMedicineConservativeBunchHealth CareGun ControlBreaking DownSocialized Medicine Author:Barack Obama
“The states is where resistance is opposition to Obamacare is taking place. The states is where tax reform is taking place, starting. The states is where whatever opposition to the latest crisis of the day is, be it health care, immigration, or guns. The states - the majority of which have Republican governors - are where this is all being dealt with, and you're not hearing about it. They don't get a lot of press coverage, but that's where this is happening.” StatesCareRepublicanTaxesHappeningsGunCrisisMajorityPressesStartingHearingImmigrationResistanceReformHealth CareOppositionGovernorsObamacareCoverageTax Reform Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There are all sorts of shades of gray when you're working on economic policy and tax policy and health care policy. There's no gray on this issue, to me. This is a gun lobby that is raging out of control, that doesn't even represent its own members.” CareEconomicPolicyTaxesGunRageHealth Care Author:Chris Murphy
“I think what hinders the argument is when people are afraid of hurting the feelings of racists and people who are genuinely - some of them - out of their minds. They demand to see Obama's birth certificate. They claim that he wants to kill our grandparents with his health care. They want to be able to carry their guns into every public place. Why do we need to coddle these people?” PeopleThinkingMindFeelingsCareHurtBirthGunArgumentHealth CareRacistGrandparentHinder Author:Janeane Garofalo
“They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?” WantCarePoliticsLibertyGunUniversalLibertarianCommunismHealth CareLibertarianismGun ControlCubaUniversal Health Care Author:Paul Harvey
“Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.” CareWishEasyGunMental HealthHealth CareDreamerGun ControlEasy To Get Author:Andy Borowitz