Ron Wyden Quotes

Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.
Ron Wyden

Sacrifice, Service, State

The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators are free to try, fail and then try again.
Ron Wyden

Life, Try, Free

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.
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Best, War, Difficult

Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.
Ron Wyden

Health, Care, Two

For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.
Ron Wyden

Women, Men, Storm

I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.
Ron Wyden

Life, Love, Care

I think I've got the best job around.
Ron Wyden

Best, Job, Around

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.
Ron Wyden

Health, Wanted, Choices

Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.
Ron Wyden

Put, Whole, Making

The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.
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Help, Stop, Industry

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.
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Idea, Terrorism, Ridiculous

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.
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Business, Learn, Internet

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
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Pretty, House, Months

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
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Experience, Legal, Help

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
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Health, Best, Real

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.
Ron Wyden

Health, Today, Help

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Ron Wyden

Women, Men, Experience

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.
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Health, Insecurity, Care

There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.
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Time, Saying, Old

With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.
Ron Wyden

Health, Care, Free

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.
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Family, Health, Best

As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.
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Business, Small, Find

Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.
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Down, Free, Getting

Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn't change the Internet as we know it.
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Change, Sure, Congress

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.
Ron Wyden

Health, Money, Care

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Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: May 3, 1949

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