"It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans."

"It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law."

"When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results."

"Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates."

"I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government."

"One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior."

"I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them."

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."