"For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them."

"Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration."

"I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise."

"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."

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

"To master the mind is to understand that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."

"It is a subtle truth that he who understands his own mind is never bewildered by the complexities of the world."

"I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination."