"Political reticence isn't a moral excuse for inaction. Progress should not be impeded by politics."

"Politics can be defined as the process of determining who gets what, when and how."

"Analysts say that the political partisans who are most likely to be critical of the press are also among the most reliable and hungry consumers of the news."

"I think the American people don't concern themselves much with Senate procedure, they are busy with their own lives," said former Senator Peter G. Fitzgerald, an Illinois Republican who appeared at the Capitol Friday with other retired Republican senators to show support for ending the filibusters. "They think more about gas prices."    NYT May 22 2005

Only with universal health care will we be able to pool risk for the entire country and share what nature has dealt us; only then will there be no motivation for anyone or any organization to ferret out an individual's confidential, genetic makeup.

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